Summary: Tomas and his family go to Iowa for the summer to pick fruit. Tomas' grandfather, Papa Grande, tells stories to the family. Papa Grande sends Tomas to the library to find more stories. Tomas meets the library lady. She helps Tomas find books about tigers and dinosaurs. At the end of the summer, Tomas has to go back to Texas.
Genre: Biographical Fiction
Biographical fiction is a story containing facts about a person's life which is based on careful research and presented in dramatic episodes that usually include fictionalized conversation.
Story Skill: Drawing Conclusions
When you draw conclusions you "put two and two together". You take all the information that you have and make a judgment about what it means. To draw a conclusion you should ask yourself: what you know about the selection of text, what you know from your own life, and how the two are related.
Summary: Tomas and his family go to Iowa for the summer to pick fruit. Tomas' grandfather, Papa Grande, tells stories to the family. Papa Grande sends Tomas to the library to find more stories. Tomas meets the library lady. She helps Tomas find books about tigers and dinosaurs. At the end of the summer, Tomas has to go back to Texas.
