This document provides instructions for teachers using a slide presentation about storks. It notes that the stork gallery slides will move automatically unless the teacher chooses to move them. It also mentions that the images are from Flickr and their copyrights were preserved, and instructs teachers to move the music icon if they delete one of the slides to keep the music. It then provides background information about storks in folklore before introducing a story about storks.

1. Note to teachers: The stork gallery moves by itself unless you would like to move it. All images are taken from Flickr, and the copyright was preserved on the images that had them.If you decided to delete this slide, please move the music icon to the second slide in order to preserve the music for the show.

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10. An old Polish folktale tells us that frogs, lizards, snakes, and other similar animals became so numerous and caused so many problems that God put them all in a sack to get rid of them. He gave the sack to a human, with instructions to empty the sack into the sea. Curiosity overcame the weak human, who opened the sack to see what was inside. All of the animals escaped and hid, so God changed the man into a stork to hunt them and clean up the mess (Knab, 1996) Stork has been a symbol of a human sole in Egypt, and in Poland it is said to bring babies to happy couples. A Hebrew word for a stork means kind mother.

11. Now let’s prepare to read a story about storks.

12. Cooperation and CompetitionStorks

13. Words Galorehurrieddawdledneatmessydistantcloseexcept explanationexcite

14. Words Galorekitchenditchwatch

15. Words GaloreShe had an explanation for why the kitchen was so messy.

16. Words GaloreExcept for my cousin Joe, who is very neat, none of my relatives live close to here.

17. Words GaloreThey hurried after the ball, but they had to watch it roll into the ditch.

18. FabVocab!wretchedlydeignponderramshackleContext CluesWord StructureApposition

19. FabVocab!Whenever I see a plane flying overhead, I ponder exactly how it is able to stay in the air.Context CluesWord StructureApposition

20. FabVocab!Ponder

21. FabVocab!My brother and his friends built a ramshackle fort made of huge cardboard boxes and duct paper in our backyard.Context CluesWord StructureApposition

22. FabVocab!Ramshackle“Ramshackle” by Lisa Segal

23. FabVocab!Ramshackle

24. FabVocab!RamshackleThe ramshackle playhouse

25. FabVocab!I watched wretchedly as the tide came in, destroying the sand castle that took me four hours to build. Context CluesWord StructureApposition

26. FabVocab!Wretchedly

27. FabVocab!The proud king did not deign to notice the crowds who lined the road as the carriage passed.Context CluesWord StructureApposition

28. FabVocab!Deignvaincondescending

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