1. Angel Child, Dragon Child
By, Michele Maria Surat

2. Vocabulary Words
jangled
twittered
gleamed
darted
scrawled
margins

3. jangled Somewhere, a loud bell jangled.
The set of keys jangled noisily when I picked them up.

4. jangled: made a loud ringing noise

5. twittered The round-eyed children twittered.
The class twittered happily when the teacher said they had a surprise visitor.

6. twittered: chattered noisily, sounding like chirping birds

7. gleamed His laughing eyes gleamed like watermelon seeds.
When the princess put on her necklace, the diamonds gleamed like stars in the night sky.

8. gleamed: was bright and shiny

9. darted That red-haired boy darted behind the dumpster.
The rabbit darted across the path and ran into the tall grass.

10. darted: moved or ran quickly from one place to another

11. scrawled I saw the postman coming, so I scrawled the address on the
5. Raymond scrawled my words in black squiggles.
I saw the postman coming, so I
scrawled the address on the
envelope and quickly put the
stamp in place.

12. scrawled: wrote quickly but not carefully

13. margins I crayoned pictures in the margins.
After I wrote the letter, I drew little hearts in the margins of the paper.

14. margins: empty spaces at the edge of the page; above, below, to the left and right