WingsWingsAuthor: Christopher Meyers

Genre: FantasySkill: Cause and Effect

Author’s Purpose: Entertain

R 76 Sight Words

listen windrock spacecovered fastseveral holdhimself toward

Lesson Vocabulary

• Attention• Complained

• Drifting• Giggle• Glaring• Looping

• Struggled• Swooping

More Words to Know

•Gawk•Snickered

Attention•Careful thinking, looking, or listening

Complained

•Said that you are unhappy or annoyed or upset about

something

Drifting•Being carried along by its currents of air or water

Giggle•To laugh in a silly or uncontrolled way

Glaring•Staring angrily

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

Struggled•Tried hard, worked

hard against difficulties

Swooping•Coming down fast on something

Gawk•To stare in a rude way

Snickered•Laughed in a sly,

silly way

•swooping

•giggle

•attention

•drifting

•Complained

•glaring

•struggled

•snickered

•gawk

• looping

Cause and Effect Signal Words

•CauseWhy something

happenedreasoncause

because

Effect

What happened•so

•consequently•therefore

•thus

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.

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?

• 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?