Dr. Conyers says you'll be just fine in a couple of days.
All you need to do is rest, how's your book?
It's good, but I just came to this really weird word.
I don't know how to say it, but it's spelled C-O-P-S-E.
It looks like it's pronounced cops.
Maybe, but it doesn't mean the police.
Listen, Tom ran into the cops and hid.
The branches were too thick and too close to the ground for the dogs to follow.
It's safe.
Must be some sort of bushes or something, because it talks about branches and stuff.
Sounds good to me.
Hi Mom, Jason's here too.
Come on up, kids.
Now don't get tired out.
Hi, Mrs. Lisa.
Hi, honey.
Hi, Jason. How about some juice?
Yeah.
Okay. Hi, everybody.
Here, this is for you.
It's from everyone in class.
Get well soon.
Thanks.
Holy, come on.
This frame is even signed in.
Excellent.
We had a great time in reading class today.
We played board detectives again.
Oh, yeah?
What was the word?
Something we've never heard of.
You see?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
Today, we're going to be word detectives.
We're going to try to figure out what a word means by finding clues.
Jason, will you read this passage for us, please?
Sarah looks for petto.
Petto, guys.
I've never heard that word before.
Does anyone recognize this word?
No.
No?
Let's read on to see if we can figure out what it means.
They're easy to see.
Their blue-gray color shows up well against the sand.
When they're polished, the gray color becomes lighter.
Her mother uses them to make jewelry.
Thank you, Jason.
Can anyone tell me what this passage is about?
Okay, then.
It's time for the word detectives to put on their thinking caps and look for clues that will help us understand this word better.
Angie?
Well, whatever they are, you find them on the beach.
What clue tells you that?
It says that's where Sarah looks for them.
And it says that they show up against the sand.
Beaches have sand.
Good, Eric.
Does that sentence tell you anything else?
It says that they're blue-gray.
Good.
So now we know that these are blue-gray and that they can be found on a beach.
Lance?
Well, maybe they're a type of duck or something.
What clues tell you that, Lance?
They're found on a beach.
Angie?
But it says her mother makes jewelry from them.
It don't make jewelry from ducks.
I think you found another clue, Angie.
What does this tell us about these?
That they aren't too big or too heavy or no one could wear them.
Good.
Yes, Jason.
Well, maybe it's some type of stone because in the last sentence it says that her mother makes jewelry from them.
Another clue.
Yes, Lance.
Well, it says that they can be polished.
You can polish stones.
We're finding lots of clues, aren't we?
Let's put them all together.
Angie, will you do that for us?
Well, you find them on the beach.
They're blue-gray.
You can polish them and you can make jewelry out of them.
All right, we're detectives.
There are your clues.
Can anyone solve our mystery word?
Jason.
It must be some sort of stone that gets washed up on the beach.
Let's see if it makes sense in the passage to think that this is a kind of stone.
Angie, will you read the passage for us?
Sarah looks for petal skies on the beach.
They're easy to see.
Their blue-gray color shows up well against the sand when their powers to gray color becomes lighter.
Her mother uses them to make jewelry.
Good.
Does it make sense to think that our mystery word means a kind of stone?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I think you're all very good word detectives.
You found a lot of clues.
And even if no one knew just how to pronounce our mystery word,
you figured out enough about it to understand the passage better.
By the way, this is what it's about.
A petaski.
Can you all say that?
Petaski?
Good.
It's a kind of a storm that has coral inside.
Isn't it pretty?
You can make jewelry out of these by cutting them open and polishing them.
Just like Sarah's mother.
It was really neat.
I've never seen a stone like that before.
Uh, well, thanks for coming over, Jace.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Well, it's okay.
I'd better be going though.
The rest of my mom would kill me for being lit and not letting her know where I am.
Call you tomorrow.
Okay, bye.
Yeah, bye.
Talk to you tomorrow.
My children.
You must hasten this.
Hurry.
Scoop.
Skedaddle.
And otherwise rush to the land of Mosheust.
For Zul is at it again.
Our planet is in grave danger.
Hurry.
Hey, wait.
I'm sick.
Oh, great.
Now what do we do?
I can go.
By yourself?
Against Zul?
Sure.
No problem.
Tell mom I'll be back for dinner, okay?
Okay.
Be careful.
Uh-huh.
Send her in lightning, trumpets and drums.
Readers rejoice, the storylord comes.
Gracious, a magic munchkin.
Where did you come from?
I've been sent to help you by Lexor, the storylord.
Dear old Lexor, I haven't seen him in an elephant's age.
Anyhow, I'm pleased to meet you young storylord.
My name is Karoma.
My name is Amanda.
How can I help?
It's that evil Thor Zul.
You heard about my magic painting.
Magic?
Yes.
I paint pictures that move.
Would you like to see one?
What should I paint a picture of?
A train.
What should I paint a picture of?
Excellent.
Anyhow, when Thor Zul heard about it, he wanted to see it.
So he says, I think what he really wants is an excuse to turn me into one of those statues.
Look at this.
Dear Karoma, please paint me a picture of a castro.
A castro.
What's that?
Who knows?
So at hunting or just flying, should I have sharp claws in a sharp beak?
If I like it, I'll ask you to paint other, bigger hocks.
No problem.
Gracious, do you know what a castro is?
I've never heard of it.
We can figure it out from the clues in the letter.
What clues?
Well, like here.
So show it hunting or flying.
So it must be a bird of some sort.
It could be some sort of flying bug, I suppose.
Well, but here's another clue.
It says it should have sharp claws and a sharp beak.
Sounds like a bird to me.
Me too.
But it could be anything from an eagle to a parakeat.
Could this be a clue?
I'll ask you to paint other, bigger hocks.
That must mean that a castro is some sort of a hawk.
And if there are bigger ones, then it must be kind of small.
Better hurry.
I think I hear him coming right now.
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But he didn't know that you can use clues to figure out the meaning of a word you don't know,
even if you've never seen it before.
The picture?
Yeah.
Thank you.