1. By Jackie Mims Hopkins Illustrated by Michael Austin
The Horned Toad Prince
By Jackie Mims Hopkins
Illustrated by Michael Austin

2. Study Skills Genre: Modern Fairy Tale
Comprehension Skill: Author’s purpose
Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure
Comprehension Review Skill:
Sequence
Vocabulary: Context clues

3. Genre: Modern Fairy Tales
In modern fairy tales the characters and events are magical.
Modern fairy tales are set in modern or present day times .
Modern fairy tales are similar to regular fairy tales but are set in the present.

4. Summary
On the windy prairies of the Southwest, Reba Jo meets a horned toad who makes a deal with her. When Reba Jo doesn’t hold up to her end of the bargain, the horned toad is offended and asks for a simple kiss. That kiss unlocks a magical spell and the ugly toad becomes a prince!

5. Comprehension Skill
Author’s Purpose is the author’s reason or reasons for writing this story.
Authors don’t usually tell you this. You have to figure the reasons out.
It might be to inform or teach, to entertain, to express their feelings, and to persuade or convince you.

6. Comprehension Review Skill Sequence
Sequence is the order of the events that occur in a story.
You can determine the order of events by clue words such as first and next, in the beginning, then, following, after, and finally.
Some story events may occur at the same time.
Other clue words to indicate sequence might be in the beginning, then, following, after, and finally.
Other story events, such as flashbacks, are told out of order.

7. Vocabulary Skill – Context Clues
When you see unfamiliar words, use context clues, or words around the unfamiliar word, to figure out its meaning.
The context may give a definition or an explanation.
Example: Animals that eat other animals are called predators
Sometimes a synonym is used as a context clue.
Example: Komodo dragons are carnivores, or meat-eaters.

8. An agreement to trade or exchange: deal
bargain
An agreement to trade or exchange: deal

9. favor
act of kindness

10. roped; caught with a long rope with a loop on the end
lassoed
roped; caught with a long rope with a loop on the end

11. hurt the feelings of someone: made angry
offended
hurt the feelings of someone: made angry

12. large area of level or rolling land with grass but few or no trees
prairie
large area of level or rolling land with grass but few or no trees

13. channel in which a river flows or used to flow
riverbed
channel in which a river flows or used to flow

14. made a loud, sharp, shrill sound
shrieked
made a loud, sharp, shrill sound

15. The teacher shrieked when she saw the snake!

16. The teacher shrieked when she saw the snake!

17. The Dollar Tree has a lot of great bargains.

18. The Dollar Tree has a lot of great bargains.

19. Would you do me a favor?

20. Would you do me a favor?

21. We saw fish in the riverbed.

22. We saw fish in the riverbed.

23. The boy was offended because I did not like his shirt.

24. The boy was offended because I did not like his shirt.

25. What type of Native Americans would live on a prairie.

26. What type of Native Americans would live on a prairie?

27. The cowboy lassoed a calf.

28. The cowboy lassoed a calf.

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