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A friendship sentence. Chester, Harry, and Tucker work together to make Tucker's bed in the pagoda. One friend passes, another carries, the third waits — and a dollar bill becomes a blanket. Copy it carefully and hear how each friend does one small job.
Chester passed the first dollar bill up to Harry cat who took it over to the cage and pushed it through the gate
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Narration Prompt
Tell Chapter 6 back in order. Start with Mario on the subway to Chinatown. Then Sai Fong and the pagoda cage. Then the story of Shishwai. Then the fortune cookie. Then Tucker sleeping in the cage on dollar bills. What happens first, second, third, fourth, and fifth?
Discussion Questions
- When Sai Fong finds out Mario has a cricket, he jumps up and 'almost dances a jig on the sidewalk.' What in the story makes you think Sai Fong is so happy that Mario's cricket is real?
- In the story Sai Fong tells, Shishwai is a wise man who speaks only truth, and the Gods turn him into a cricket to save him. How do you know the story means the cricket's song is something special and not just noise?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
A small house with bars for keeping a pet animal.
Item 2
A small metal shape that tinkles when something hits it.
Item 3
A small tool for smoking, with a bowl and a long stem.
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