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[electronic music]

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[Norbert makes plane sounds]

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[knock on door]

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- Norby?
- Uh-huh.

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- It's Mandy.

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Can I come in?
- Uh-huh.

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- Will you help me
with my homework?

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- Uh-uh.

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- Come on Norby, please?

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I helped you build
your hockey net.

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- [sighs] What do you want me
to do?

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- Just read this book
and tell me what it's about

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so I can answer questions
at school tomorrow.

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- Norbert: Why can't you read it
yourself?

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- 'Cause you're older.

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You're a better reader
than I am.

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- So?

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You can be a good reader too,
but I can't do it for you.

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You've got to do it
for yourself.

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- How?

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- Well, when you're reading
something,

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you have to keep thinking.

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You think about
what you're reading

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and about what you already know.

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You just make sure
you understand

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what you're reading about.

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- Hey...

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Neat!

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What is it?

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- Uh, it's a landing light
for the star jet.

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- Mandy: Who's that?

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- Holy camoley.

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- Holy who?
- Shh!

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- My child, you must hurry
to the land of Mojuste.

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That evil genius Thorzuul has
concocted his worst plot yet.

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There is not a moment to lose!

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- Where did you get that?

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- Uh... Last Christmas,
in my stocking.

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Remember?
- Sure...

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- Anyway, I'm going to go over
to Jason's for a little while.

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Tell Mom I'll be back
for dinner, okay?

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- Okay...

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[gentle music]

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- Thunder and lightning,
trumpets and drums.

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Readers rejoice!

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A Storyload comes.

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[Bike-O-Tron rattles]

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- Surprise!

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[shimmer]

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[gentle music]

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[shimmer]

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- Holy camoley, Mandy!

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- Where are we?

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- It's a long story.

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This is a land called Mojuste,

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and I have to try and save its
people from an evil Storylord

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named Thorzuul.

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He's kind of like
a wizard of reading.

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- [clears throat]

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- There's someone
behind that bookcase.

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- Norby, can we go home now?

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- Shh, can't you read?

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- All right, all right,
you found me!

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I give up.

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Wait a minute!

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You're not Thorzuul.

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- Norbert Niesenden, apprentice
Storylord, at your service.

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And this is my assistant, Mandy.

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- At your service.

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- Well, this is a relief.

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My name is Marian.

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I'm the librarian here.

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- How can we help you, Marian?

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- Well, you might bring these
children back to life.

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- Looks like the work of
Thorzuul, if I'm not mistaken.

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- You most certainly aren't.

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He has been coming here
every day,

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giving our children
a reading test

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to see if they knew how to
understand what they're reading.

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If the children can't answer
the question,

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you can see what happens.

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- Is he coming today?

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- I'm afraid so.

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In fact, I thought you two were
him and his loathsome chauffeur.

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- I bet I could answer his
questions, but he knows me.

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He'd zap me just like he zapped
the other kids.

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If only you had someone
he didn't know.

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I think we could beat him
at his own game.

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- No way!

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Come on, Norby.

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You're a better reader
than I am.

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- Don't you remember what
I was just telling you

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about how to be a good reader?

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- Uh-uh.

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- Well, listen, 'cause it's
up to you to save these kids.

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I just had a reading class
on this the other day.

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- Mrs. Framish: Today, we're
going to review what we know

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about being good readers.

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We're going to use this book,
<i>Gavin Spends the Night.</i>

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Before we begin, who can tell us
what we should do first?

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Angie?

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- Try to guess what the story
is about?

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- Mrs. Framish: Good.

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How do we do that?

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- By looking at the picture on
the cover, reading the title,

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and thinking about them.

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- Very good.

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Now, who can tell us
what they think this story

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is going to be about?

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Jason?

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- I think this is about a boy

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who spends the night
at a friend's house

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because it fits the title
and the picture.

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- Mrs. Framish:
Do you all agree?

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Yes, Angie.

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- There's something else I do
before starting to read.

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- What's that?

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- I think of what I already know

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about what it's like
sleeping over at a friend's.

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Then I'll understand the story
better when I read it.

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- Very good.

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We think before we read,
don't we?

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[chalk scrapes]

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Yes, Norbert?

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- I don't just think
before I read a story.

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I keep thinking the whole time.

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- Good for you, Norbert.

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That's very important too.

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Norbert, can you show us
how you keep thinking

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while you're reading?

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- Well, like on page 13 here.

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It says, "We were having
a great pillow fight.

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"All of a sudden,
my pillow slid out of its case

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"and flew across the room.

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"It headed for the lamp
like a heat-seeking missile.

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"Crash!

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"'Uh-oh,' said Zachary.

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Then there was a loud knock
at the door."

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Now, if I was reading this
story, I would stop here

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and try to predict
what would happen next.

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Like, they were having
a pillow fight,

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and they knocked the lamp over.

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- How do you know
they knocked the lamp over?

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I don't see that written
anywhere.

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- Well, it says it flew
towards the lamp,

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and then it says, "Crash,"

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and you can see it
in the picture.

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- Well, good for you, Norbert.

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What do you think will happen
next?

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- So, anyway, the parents
probably heard it,

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and the loud knock at the door
is probably one of them

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coming to see
what's going on.

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That's what would happen
at my house.

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- Let's find out.

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Angie, will you read for us?

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- "We closed our eyes tight
and pretended to be asleep.

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"The door opened.

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"'Well, well, well,'
said Zachary's father.

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"'Everyone's asleep.

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"'It looks like we've been
invaded by flying pillows

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from outer space.'"

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- Thank you, Angie.

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Good for you, Norbert.

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You thought about what you read,
and about what you know,

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and you guessed
who was at the door.

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Did you all think it was going
to be one of the parents?

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Good.

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Yes, Jason?

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- On the page before,

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I didn't understand what
a heat-seeking missile was.

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- What do we do when we are
reading something,

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and we don't understand?

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Yes, Norbert?

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- You stop and look for clues,
reread the page,

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look at the pictures,
read ahead,

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and try to figure it out.

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- Or you can ask someone.

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Or if it's a word
you don't understand,

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you could look it up
in the dictionary.

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- Excellent.

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Jason, can you find a clue

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about a heat-seeking missile
on page 13?

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- Well, a missile
looks like a rocket.

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I've seen 'em on TV.

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- Mrs. Framish: Anybody else?

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- We could look it up
in the dictionary.

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- Well, it says it headed
for the lamp

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like a heat-seeking missile,

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and lamps get hot
when they're on.

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So, maybe it's a missile that
hits things that are hot.

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- Good thinking, Norbert.

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That's about right.

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And I'm very proud
of all of you.

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If you can keep doing the things
that we have talked about today

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while you're reading,

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you're going to become
very good readers indeed.

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But remember...

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- But remember,
you have to make the effort.

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No one else can do it for you.

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Can you remember all that,
Mandy?

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- Mm-hmm.

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00:11:04,932 --> 00:11:09,369
Think before you read,
and think while you read.

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[electronic music]

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- Oh, I'm afraid Thorzuul
has arrived.

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- We'd better hide.

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00:11:27,387 --> 00:11:29,056
Good luck, Mandy.

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00:11:38,866 --> 00:11:44,338
- Announcing his Royal Badness,
the one and only Thorzuul!

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00:11:50,344 --> 00:11:51,445
- Milkbreath?

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Shh.
- Huh?

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- Can't you read?
- Sorry.

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- Aha, look!

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Another pint-sized victim
for us.

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00:12:02,556 --> 00:12:04,224
[evil laughter]

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00:12:08,896 --> 00:12:11,899
Little girl,
do you know who I am?

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- A big, fat, scary man?

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- So much
for the friendly approach.

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Here.

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Have you ever seen
this book before?

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- Mandy: Mm, no.

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- Good.
[Milkbreath chuckles]

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Since you're such
a smart little girl,

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I won't zap you like I zapped
your friends here

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if you can tell me
what the story is about.

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- [thinks] Hmm.

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Think before you read.

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I think that's important.

227
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Looks like a giraffe.

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00:12:56,844 --> 00:12:58,312
- Thorzuul: Well?

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- Mm, I think the sultan
gets a giraffe for a new pet.

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00:13:05,219 --> 00:13:06,887
- A lucky guess.

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00:13:07,287 --> 00:13:08,622
- It wasn't luck.

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I figured it out by the title
and the picture on the cover.

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- Thorzuul: Oh, I see.

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00:13:15,128 --> 00:13:19,566
Well, if you're so smart,
then read that page

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and tell me what happens next.

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We've got her now.
[both chuckle]

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- [thinks] Hmm.

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Think while you read.

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"Poor giraffe!

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"She hit her head
on low palm tree branches,

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"on the doorways into the
sultan's palace, everything!

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"The sultan looked out
of the window at the men

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"building the new royal zoo.

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"Suddenly,
he noticed their hats.

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"He had an idea.

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'Call the royal hatmaker!'
he cried."

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[thinks]
The giraffe's head hurts.

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I think that's important.

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And the sultan sees men
wearing hard hats.

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- Time's up.

251
00:14:04,244 --> 00:14:08,916
- I think the sultan gets
a hard hat for the giraffe.

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- [sputters] She did it!

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00:14:13,554 --> 00:14:15,255
She got it right!

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00:14:15,322 --> 00:14:16,590
- It was easy.

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00:14:16,657 --> 00:14:19,826
I just looked for clues
in the words and the pictures.

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00:14:19,893 --> 00:14:21,562
- I lose... again!

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00:14:24,097 --> 00:14:25,766
[shimmer]

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00:14:32,272 --> 00:14:33,674
You!

259
00:14:33,740 --> 00:14:35,642
I should have known.

260
00:14:36,743 --> 00:14:41,481
- I don't believe you've been
introduced to my sister.

261
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- Sister?

262
00:14:43,851 --> 00:14:45,752
[harrumphs]
Milkbreath,

263
00:14:45,819 --> 00:14:47,487
get me out of here!

264
00:14:47,754 --> 00:14:49,056
- Kids in unison: Shhh!

265
00:14:49,122 --> 00:14:52,259
- Thorzuul: Huh?
- Can't you read?

266
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[Thorzuul harrumphs]