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- My child, you must wake!
My child!
[Norbert groans sleepily]
- Lexor, it's 2:00 in the morning.
- My child, tomorrow you will undergo your greatest challenge.
- But I can't go to Mojuste tomorrow!
I've got classes all day.
And then I have to take Mandy to the dentist.
- You won't have to go to Mojuste.
It will come to you.
Good luck, my child.
[Norbert sighs]
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- Are you all finished reading?
Okay, you may close your books.
Just leave them on your desks.
Today, we're going to do something a little different
in reading class.
Over the past year,
you've learned many ways to help you understand better
what you read.
Let's look at these passages on the board and try to figure out
how to use what you've learned to understand them.
Angie, will you read the first passage, please?
- Angie: "Frank took the bus to Bill's house.
"It was large and very warm inside.
Bill's cousins lived there too."
- Thank you, Angie.
Does anyone have a problem understanding this passage?
Jason?
- I can't tell what the word "it" stands for.
- Okay.
What should you do to understand this passage?
- Well, I stop and reread it to see if I could understand it.
Then, I check back and see what the word "it" could stand for.
- Did you do that? - Uh-huh.
I think that "it" stands for "bus,"
but when I read the paragraph that way,
it doesn't make sense.
- Mrs. Framish: Could you show us what you mean, Jason?
- Well, it would read, "Frank took the bus to Bill's house.
"The bus was large and very warm inside.
Bill's cousins lived there too."
I mean, they couldn't live in a bus.
Oh, wait a minute!
I get it.
"It" stands for Bill's house.
That way, the sentence makes sense.
- Do you all agree with Jason?
Very good, Jason!
Well done.
Now, let's move on to the second paragraph.
Norbert, will you read it for us please?
- Norbert: The "yach-et."
I don't know that word.
- Have any of you seen this word before?
- I think I can figure it out,
or else I won't understand this paragraph.
- Tell us what you're going to do
to figure out what this word means.
- Well, first I'll read on to look for clues.
- "The yach-et floated quietly in the bay.
"The captain and the crew slept below the deck.
The ocean race would start at dawn."
I think I know what it means.
- What clues did you find?
- Well, first it says it's floating in the bay,
so I figured it must have something to do with the water.
And then it says it has a captain and a crew,
so I knew it must be a boat.
And then, it says they're all sleeping on it
and it's going to be in an ocean race.
I've seen pictures of boats that go on the ocean
and they're big, so I think a yachet is a big boat.
- Very good, Norbert.
You're right.
You looked for clues,
you thought about what you already know,
and you figured out what this word meant.
- How do you pronounce it?
- Some of you may have heard this word before,
but not seen it.
It's pronounced "yaht."
Now, let's go on to the last paragraph.
Angie, will you read it for us, please?
- "Fred is two years old.
"He has whiskers.
"He likes to eat fish.
"He also likes to chase mice and birds.
He only ever says one word." - Good, Angie.
Angie, is there something you don't understand?
- I'm just trying to figure out what word he says.
Oh, I know!
- Tell us how you figured it out.
- Well, first I reread the paragraph
to make sure I understood all the words.
Then, I looked for clues. - What clues did you find?
- It says that Fred is two years old, but he has whiskers,
so I figured it wasn't a person.
Maybe he's some sort of animal.
Then, it says he likes to eat fish
and also likes to chase mice and birds.
Well, we've got a cat and that's what a cat does,
and the cat has whiskers,
so I know what the word he says is.
Meow!
- Very good, Angie.
And I'm very proud of all of you.
You're becoming very good readers.
You remember to think before you read,
and you think while you read,
making sure that you understand what you're reading.
And you remember to use what you already know
and what you've learned to help you understand even better.
You've all done good work.
Now, it's about time to go, so put your books away.
Who will clean the board? - I will.
I have to wait for Mandy anyway.
- Mrs. Framish: Thank you, Norbert.
I'll be back in a few minutes.
Class dismissed.
- Bye. - So long.
- Mrs. Framish: What are you gonna do
after school today, Mary, hmm?
- Norby, hurry up.
We can't keep the dentist waiting for us.
- I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying.
- Mandy: That's weird. - What is?
- Mandy: There's a motorcycle outside
that looks exactly like Thorzuul's.
What would he be do--
- Announcing direct from his castle in the land of Mojuste,
his Royal Badness, the one and only Thorzuul!
- Greetings, earthlings!
- Mrs. Framish is not gonna like this.
- But-- but--
- One more "but" and you'll be a billygoat.
[Milkbreath laughs]
I've come here to challenge both of you to a duel.
A duel to the finish.
If you win, you'll never see me again.
But if I win, you will be permanent exhibits
in my statue collection. [both chuckle]
Milkbreath, the envelope, please.
If you think you're such good readers,
try to make sense out of these.
You have three minutes.
Milkbreath, guard the door.
- How can we do this without our Storylord gloves?
- The Storylord power is not in the gloves.
It's in our own brains.
Come on, we don't have much time.
- Mandy: "The smallest, the falconet,
weighs barely two ounces."
- Norbert: "That's like the difference
between you and an elephant."
- Mandy: "Hawks and their relatives vary in size."
- Norbert: "Its largest cousin, the harpy eagle,
can weigh more than 15 pounds."
- This doesn't look good.
- Two minutes.
- Well, if it's a paragraph,
then it must have a topic sentence.
- Yeah, let's look for a main idea of all of these sentences.
- Mandy: Well, some of them say stuff about birds,
and one says something about an elephant.
- Norbert: But they're all about different sizes.
That's what this one's about. - Mandy: Make it number one.
- Norbert: Hmm, what's next?
[stopwatch ticks]
- One minute.
- Can't be the one about the elephant.
That wouldn't make sense.
- The only one that fits is the one about the falconet.
It must be some sort of a small hawk.
- Thirty seconds. [giggles]
- Put the one about the elephant next.
- Is that right?
"Hawks and their relatives vary in size.
"The smallest, the falconet, weighs barely two ounces.
"That's like the difference between you and an elephant.
Its largest cousin, the harpy--" - Hold it, hold it!
If we left it like this,
then the word "its" would stand for the word "elephant,"
and the elephant's largest cousin couldn't be a bird.
- Norbert: Then "it" must stand for this word!
If an eagle's its cousin, it must be a bird too.
You're right! - Thorzuul: Four, three...
- Mandy: Finished.
Read it, Norby. - Thorzuul: Two, one.
- "Hawks and their relatives vary in size.
"The smallest, the falconet, weighs barely two ounces.
"Its largest cousin, the harpy eagle,
"can weigh more than 15 pounds.
That's like the difference between you and an elephant."
- I don't believe it!
- Your Royal Badness, would you like some warm milk?
[Thorzuul growls]
- You've won!
You've beaten me! [roars in anger]
[zap]
[Thorzuul wails]
- Your Royal Badness?
[Milkbreath cries]
- Norbert, what's going on here?
[shimmer] - Lexor!
- We needed you about five minutes ago.
- No, my children.
You didn't need me.
You have become Storylords on your own.
And as long as you keep using what you've learned
to help you understand what you read,
you will never have to fear the ignorance of those
such as Thorzuul.
- Well, I guess we should thank you or something.
- No, don't thank me.
Thank your fellow Storylord
who's worked undercover here on Earth
to help you and others like you become full-fledged Storylords.
- Who?
[shimmer]
Mrs. Framish?
A Storylord?
- Holy camoley!
- Mandy: Oh, wow!
I never knew you were a Storylord.
- Norbert: Holy camoley!
[Thorzuul laughs]
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