2. Wings Author: Christopher Meyers Genre: Fantasy Skill: Cause and Effect Author’s Purpose: Entertain

3. R 76 Sight Words listenwind rockspace coveredfast severalhold himself toward

4. Lesson Vocabulary Attention Complained Drifting Giggle Glaring Looping Struggled Swooping

5. More Words to Know Gawk Snickered

6. Attention Careful thinking, looking, or listening

7. Complained Said that you are unhappy or annoyed or upset about something

8. Drifting Being carried along by its currents of air or water

9. Giggle To laugh in a silly or uncontrolled way

10. Glaring Staring angrily

11. Looping Forming a line, path, or motion shaped so that it crosses itself

12. Struggled Tried hard, worked hard against difficulties

13. Swooping Coming down fast on something

14. Gawk To stare in a rude way

15. Snickered Laughed in a sly, silly way

16. swooping

17. giggle

18. attention

19. drifting

20. Complained

21. glaring

22. struggled

23. snickered

24. gawk

25. looping

26. Cause and Effect Signal Words Cause Why something happened reason cause because

27. Effect What happened so consequently therefore thus

28. R 35 Cause and Effect (TA WB. p. 38, 52) (TC 31,34,43,46,103) Effects: The room was hot. The dog barked loudly. Many people were coughing. The trees were uprooted. Causes: Perfume was sprayed. A thunderstorm hit the town. The air conditioner was broken. A cat walked across the yard.

29. Review Questions 1.Why were the people pointing their fingers and shaking their heads? 2.What problems did Ikarus’s wings cause in the classroom? 3.What did the children do when Ikarus flew through the air on the playground? 4.How did the narrator know how Ikarus felt?

30. 5. Where did Ikarus land? 6. What did the policeman say to Ikarus? 7. How did the narrator defend Ikarus after the policeman blew his whistle? 8. When did Ikarus smile? 9. Who is the narrator’s new friend?