1.Think Before You Read
Answer the following questions before you read the story:
1.It is especially challenging to raise children in a large family. How do parents show their love for each child? How do they avoid playing favorites? 2.In what special ways did your parents show their love for you when you were a child? 3.Did your parents show favoritism to a brother or sister? How did you feel? 4.What are the qualities of a good parent?
2.Literary Term: Conflict Conflict between characters, ideologies, or countries creates interest in the plot of a story. As readers, we become absorbed in the story and want to see what happens at the end. The conflict can be an internal psychological struggle within one of the characters, or it can be a major eruption between people or nations. Conflict allows the writer to explore and use human emotions such as love, hate, sorrow, joy, and fear.
3. Vocabulary and Idioms Find the words in the story and try to understand their meanings using context clues. Use those clues to find the correct definition in the right-hand column. Write the letter of the correct definition next to each word in the left-hand column.
