Pecos Bill Tames a Rough Bunch
Pecos Bill Tames a Rough Bunch
Pecos Bill Tames a Rough Bunch
Pecos Bill Tames a Rough Bunch
Pecos Bill Tames a Rough Bunch
Pecos Bill Tames a Rough Bunch
Pecos Bill Tames a Rough Bunch
Tall Tale (fiction), 830 words, Lexile 630L Level 3 Grades 2-3
Pecos Bill was raised by coyotes and grew up to be a tough cowboy. After inventing the cowboy life and cleaning up Texas, Bill decided that he needed to move somewhere where there was more action. Along the way he won a fight with an unbelievably large rattlesnake, which he decided to use as a bullwhip, and tamed a large wildcat. He found a tough bunch of men and built two ranches-New Mexico and Arizona.
Lesson Resources
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Lesson Skills
Comprehension Skills and Strategies- Make predictions
- Reality and fantasy
- Sequence events
- Story elements: Analyze character and setting
- Text-to-self connections
Grammar and Mechanics
- Adverbs
Word Work
- Book vocabulary
- Prefixes un-, im-
- Similes
Shared Writing and a Home Connection are integrated into one of the skills above.
