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“How Tia Lola Came To Visit Stay” By Julia Alvarez Story Overview: Miguel and Juanita Guzman have moved to Vermont from New York City because their mother has taken a job at a local college. Their mother’s aunt, Tia Lola, arrives for a visit from the Dominican Republic. Tia Lola soon impresses Miguel’s friends, the owner of a local restaurant, the baseball coach, and even the difficult Colonel Charlebois, owner of the farmhouse that Miguel’s family rents. Genre: Realistic Fiction Vocabulary: inscribed- written, engraved, or printed as a lasting record resemblance- likeness postmarked- marked to cancel the postage stamp with the date and place of sending enthralled- charmed regulation- requirement by law or rule grouchy- in a bad mood; irritable, sulky embarrassment- the state of feeling of uncomfortable pennant- a triangular flag that serves as the emblem of a team Strategy: Word Parts / Inflectional Endings- adding an inflectional ending to a word shows a change in tense or number. Adding –s or –es to a verb shows that the subject is singular. The inflectional ending –ed changes verbs into the past tense. Skill: Inference- Author’s do not always tell readers everything that takes place in a story. Instead, they provide details that allow readers to figure things out for themselves. Good readers use clues from the text as well as prior knowledge to make inferences. Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns, Capitalization Spelling List: Plurals echoes bacteria staffs photos wolves buffaloes data dominoes sheriffs scarves solos tornadoes volcanoes thieves sopranos shelves wives loaves media cuffs Review words: old-fashioned, windshield, question mark Challenge words: halves, wharves