The Blind HunterBy: Mrs. Breeding

Genre Realistic Fiction -Made-up story that could have happened in

real life.

Strategy Generate Questions -As you read you should ask yourselves

questions to help you understand the story.

Skill Draw Conclusions -Use clues from the text to draw conclusions

about the plot and the characters.

Grammar Subject Pronoun -use a subject pronoun as the subject of a sentence. I, you, he,

she, it we and they are subject pronouns. Object Pronoun -Use and object pronoun after and action verb or after a word

such as for, at, of, with, or to. Reflexive Pronoun -Use a reflexive pronoun instead of an object pronoun if the

subject of the sentence is doing the action to himself or herself. Myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves, and yourselves are reflexive pronouns.

Vocabulary Words

Fade (adj) to lose strength or

brightness

Cautiously (adj.) carefully or safely

Crisscrossed (adj.) marked with lines that

cross one another

Disguised (adj.) changed appearance to

look like something else

Wisdom (adj.) good judgment in

knowing what is right

Jealousy (adj.) a feeling of wanting

what someone else has

Faint (verb) not clear or strong; weak

Story Words bountiful: plentiful groves: groups of trees growing near one

another warthogs: wild African pigs landscape: the land you can see from one

spot baobab: an African tree with a wide trunk that

stores water