Ginger Baker (1939–2019)

Roberto walks home alone for the first time.
■ Realistic fiction
■ Third person
■ Past tense
■ Sequence
■ Layers of meaning
■ Dialogue
■ Contractions
■ Word challenges—characters’ names
■ Use of apostrophe for possessive— ’s
■ Understanding problem/resolution
■ Gathering information for recounting; sequence
■ Inferential reading themes: self-confidence, family and
friends, independence, being afraid, being willing to take
risks… (altro)