The Widow's Broom

• Identify and describe the relationships between characters in The Widow’s Broom, using text evidence to explain their actions, thoughts, and feelings.
• Use context clues to define unfamiliar vocabulary from the story and apply those words in discussion or writing.
• Determine the theme or moral of the story and explain how events and character actions support it.
• Make and support predictions and inferences based on illustrations and text in The Widow’s Broom.
• Distinguish between points of view and identify the narrative perspective used in the text, supporting answers with examples.
• Construct compound sentences and edit writing for correct punctuation, capitalization, and sentence structure.
• Interpret and create analogies using characters, actions, and themes from the story to strengthen vocabulary and reasoning skills.

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