Ask students to restate facts and details in their own words.

Ask: What were the two settings?

Ask: Who were the main characters?

Ask; What was the story sequence?

Ask: What was the theme or author's message?

Word Work

Nouns
Explain to students that nouns are naming words. Use the following example from the book: road, page 10.

Ask: Can you find any other nouns in the story?

Adjectives
Explain to students that an adjective helps describe the noun. Use the following example from the book

bumpy, dirt (adjectives) road (noun)

Ask: Can you find any other adjectives in the story?

Introduce the second worksheet. Explain to students that it is related to the work just covered on nouns and adjectives.

Learning through Visual Devices
Have students look at page 7. Ask: Where is Weaver's Needle? What direction would you have to travel to get from Weaver's Needle to Phoenix?

Explain how students can figure out direction from the directions on the map. Point to the north side of the room. Have children stand up and face north. Now, have them face south. Do this with all the directions.

Explain that every map also has a distance key. Explain that if the room you are in were on a map, every foot could be represented in inches. A desk would only be a fraction of an inch. This means that in the map, the sizes are even smaller representations of larger objects.

If you'd like, you can have the class make their own maps of the neighborhood, playground, or school.

Writing Link
Taken form the worksheet - Putting it together

Have students write their own adventure story with Billy, Jacob and Mr. Martinez  

Assessment

• Review students' completed comprehension worksheet in order to assess whether they understood the reading.
• Have students write sentences or paragraphs using selected words from the vocabulary list, or word work examples from the lesson, in order to demonstrate their understanding of word meaning.
• Assess students' knowledge of nouns and adjectives.