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Mary had practiced her recital piece for an hour. She still couldn’t get it right. She threw her music to the floor and stormed from the room. She told her mother that she was just going to quit piano because she would never learn to play her recital piece. Her mother told her to give it time. She explained that it took more than one practice session to learn a piano piece. She told her that if she would practice her piece every day, eventually she would learn it. Mary wasn’t sure she agreed, but for the next week she practiced every day. To her surprise one day, she realized that she had played her piece perfectly. Her mom had been right after all.

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Tommy was walking to his friend’s house when he saw a man walking toward him. The man said hi to Tommy. Tommy stopped and said hello to the man, although he didn’t know him. The man asked Tommy if he would come with him to his car and show him how to use his cell phone. Tommy didn’t think he should do this, because he didn’t know the man. He told the man that he didn’t have time, but the man insisted. When Tommy tried to walk away, the man grabbed his arm and started pulling him toward his car. Tommy yelled as loudly as he could. A policeman came and made the man get away from Tommy. Tommy then ran to his friend’s house and told him what had happened. When his friend’s mother went outside to try and find the man, she saw the policeman arresting him. Tommy was glad he had listened to his mother about strangers.

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Fred had never been to the dentist. All of his life he had heard horror stories about the buzzing drills, the huge needles, and the scary tools that the dentist used to torture his patients. Since none of his teeth were hurting, Fred just couldn’t understand why his mom was insisting on taking him to the dentist. She told him that it was important to visit the dentist each year to have his teeth checked and cleaned. This seemed silly to Fred because he cleaned his teeth everyday by brushing and flossing them, but nothing would change his mother’s mind. He found it hard to believe that she would think it was a good idea to take him somewhere to be tortured. However, he had no choice but to go.
On the way to the dentist, Fred’s imagination went wild. He pictured walking into a room with a huge chair that the dentist would strap him to. He could just see the dentist pulling out a huge drill and drilling his tooth while his mother and several others held him in the chair. By the time he got to the dentist’s office, he was shaking all over.
Surprisingly, the office was nothing like he expected. The dentist was friendly, and the chair was comfortable. It didn’t have any straps. He looked around the room and didn’t see any huge drills or torture devices. He was relieved when all the dentist did was look in his mouth, show him how to properly brush and floss his teeth, and give him a balloon. His mom made another appointment to have his teeth cleaned in six months. Maybe this wouldn’t be as bad as he had thought it would be.

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Reading: Literature (RL.4.2)

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