1. Before, During, and After Reading Skills
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
By Rudyard Kipling
Before, During, and After Reading Skills

2. Preparing to Read
1. Identify five text features seen throughout this story.
2. Identify and define the Literary Focus elements of this text.
3. Identify and define the Reading Focus skills used in this text.
What is the Writing Focus assignment and what are you asked to look for as you read the beginning of the text?
Which Vocabulary words did you not recognize? How does this text help you learn new words?

3. Author Information 4. Read the “Meet the Writer” section on page 142.
Make a list of at least three important facts you learn about the author.
Circle the detail you think is the most important.

4. Build Background and Preview the Selection
Read the “Build Background” and “Preview the Selection” sections on page 142.
Make a list of at least three important facts you learn about the text.
Circle the detail you think is the most important.

5. Why would someone bully another person?
Quick Write
Bullying
What is a bully?
Tell about a time when you were bullied or witnessed someone else being bullied.
Why would someone bully another person?
What inferences can you draw about a person who is behaving like a bully?

6. What are some adjective you could use to describe the creature above?

7. What adjective could you use to describe the creature above and how does this creature differ from the previous creature?

8. Construct a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast these animals
Construct a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast these animals. Be sure to have at least five facts in each section of the diagram.

9. Vocabulary Immensely Cowered Valiant Consolation
For each word below, please copy the definition, write the sentence from the text, create your own original sentence, and an illustration to represent the term.
Immensely
Cowered
Valiant
Consolation

10. Extended Writing
How has Rikki’s personality affected his interaction with other characters?

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12. Read the text carefully and ponder the question below.
Literary Response
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”
Read the text carefully and ponder the question below.
If you were facing a bully, would you fight, run away, or try to negotiate?
Use this story as a means to examine the question below as it might relate to you personally.

13. Preview and Predictions
Before Reading Skills
Preview and Predictions
Make a list of the things you “know” or “think you know” based only on the text features.
Make a list of at least 3 things you want to know, but you need to read in order to find out.
What genre or type of text do you think we are reading? Why?

14. During Reading Skills Setting Purposes What’s Your Purpose?
Why are you reading this?
What will you learn from this text?
Why did the writer share this story?
What’s Your Purpose?
Based on what you have previewed so far and learned about the author and the background of the story, what are three purposes for reading this story.

15. Comprehension/Discussion Questions
Note all of the comprehension/discussion questions that appear at the bottom of most of the columns of the text.
Be sure to stop, read, and answer (to yourself) each question A-U.

16. Stop and Think!!!
What conflicts do the characters in the story encounter?
How do the various characters deal with those conflicts? Do the conflicts get resolved?