Dear Mr Henshaw Person to Person Story Strategy

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Person to Person Story Strategy Evaluate Genre Realistic Fiction Skill Making Inferences

Key Vocabulary disappointed experience prose understanding rejected snoop splendid submitted

The author has chosen to show the main character only through his diary entries and letter. As you read, evaluate how well this format works in telling Leigh’s story.

We consider how well the author has told the story or shared an idea as we relate it to other stories we have read in the past

When we make inferences, we combine our own experiences and background knowledge with story details. + = infer

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Page 419 When the librarian tells him he still has time to enter a contest to meet a famous author, which he wants to do, he gets right to work Someone who is willing to start a difficult task right away in order to achieve something is industrious Leigh is industrious

Page 420 He says he wasn’t sure his friend would like his house because it is small. Someone may just be worried that the other person will find some reason not to like them. Leigh might feel a bit ashamed of his house, or he might worry about losing Barry as a friend

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prose • Ordinary spoken or written language as opposed to verse or poetry.

diary • A daily record or journal

rejected • Turned down, did not accept.

understanding • Knowledge of something; being aware of why something is the way it is.

splendid • excellent

submitted • Offered one’s work to someone who might publish it.

snoop • Someone who tries to find out about other people’s doings in a sneaky way.

experience • Something that happens to someone; personal involvement in an event.

disappointed • Made unhappy by seeing one’s hopes come to nothing.

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