A Reading/Language Arts Program Contributors Time Magazine, Accelerated Reader Students with print disabilities may be eligible to obtain an accessible, audio version of the pupil edition of this textbook. Please call Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic at 1-800-221-4792 for complete information. A Published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Two Penn Plaza, New York, New York 10121. Copyright © 2009 by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, network storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Printed in the United States of America ISBN-13: 978-0-02-198811-2/3, Bk. 1 ISBN-10: 0-02-198811-0/3, Bk. 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (079/043) 11 10 09 08 07 A Reading/Language Arts Program Program Authors Donald R. Bear Janice A. Dole Jana Echevarria Jan E. Hasbrouck Scott G. Paris Timothy Shanahan Josefina V. Tinajero Unit 1 Our World THEME: New Beginnings Talk About It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Tina’s Try-Out Day Vocabulary/Comprehension: Character, Setting, Plot . . . 12 First Day Jitters Humorous Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 By Julie Danneberg, illustrated by Judy Love Making New Friends Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 By Jan Smith Writing: Personal Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 THEME: Keeping in Touch Talk About It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Mail for Matty Vocabulary/Comprehension: Character, Setting, Plot. . . 40 Dear Juno Realistic Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 By Soyung Pak, illustrated by Susan Kathleen Hartung How We Keep in Touch Social