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Mystic Horse
By Paul Goble
Story Overview: This story is a Native American legend called Mystic Horse. It
tells about a boy and his grandmother who live in a Pawnee community. The
grandmother and boy are poor and have to walk whenever the Pawnee move. First, the
boy finds a sickly horse, and then he decides to take care of it. The horse repays him for
his kindness.
Genre: A Legend is a story that has been handed down by a people for many years and
often has some basis in fact.
Vocabulary:
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responsibility: a job, duty, or concern.
patchwork: something put together out of many uneven or varied parts.
sores: places where the skin has been broken and hurts.
midst: the middle part
loosened: made less tight
amazement: great surprise or wonder
mysterious: very hard or impossible to explain or understand
Strategy: Summarize
A summary is a short statement written in the students’ own words that states the most
important events or ideas in a text.
Skill: Sequence
Understanding the sequence of events can help students summarize a story. Signal words
such as before, after, then, later, next, and finally, are often used to indicate time order.
Grammar: Linking Verbs
A linking verb links, or connects, the subject of a sentence to a noun, pronoun, or
adjective that describes the subject. Linking verbs are most often the forms of be: am, is,
are, was, were. Other linking verbs include words such as: look, seem, appear, become,
feel, grow, smell, taste.
Spelling List: Words with Plural Endings
Clams, mints, props, arches, dresses, parents, caves, glasses, hobbies, engines, couches,
arrows, enemies, babies, ranches, patches, mistakes, berries, mosses, armies
Review words: circus, germs, spice
Challenge words: batteries, compasses