Students read traditional stories, including Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and The Four Brahmins. They retell events, discuss characters’ choices, and explain the lessons or messages in a story.
Practice: Vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, and discussion.
Vocabulary: merchant, greedy, imagine, honest.
Grammar: Use used to + infinitive to compare past habits or situations with the present.
Word study: Pronounce ex before a consonant in words such as expand, expert, and expensive.
Reading & speaking: Read Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; retell events and discuss honesty, greed, and the characters’ choices.