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Helping in the family's business

As Shintaro delivers umbrellas made by his grandfather, he
sees that they have many uses.
■ Realistic fiction narrative
■ Third person
■ Present tense
■ Cultural perspective
■ Similes
■ Possessive apostrophe, singular and plural
■ Onomatopoeia
■ Some repetition of alternating structure
■ Probably some unfamiliar vocabulary or unfamiliar function
of known words—“glue” as a verb, “finished” as an adjective,
“casts” as a verb
■ Open-ended
■ Unusual time perspective, written as though Shintaro sees
umbrellas in use
■ Map and information on inside front cover
■ Attending to text details, especially word functions and
punctuation
■ Inferential reading
■ Extending text, understanding layers of meaning
■ Understanding time perspective
■ Comparing and contrasting