The mythology of the American frontier comes to life again in Read & Understand, Tall Tales, Grades 3-4 which is populated by bigger-than-life heroes whose incredible exploits hold a timeless appeal for young readers, making them ideal focal points for learning and discussion. This volume features 22 two-to-three-page stories that vary in reading difficulty from beginning third through beginning fifth grade to meet a range of needs.Practice activities for every story include: a comprehension page a vocabulary page There are two pages for practice of skills such as, character analysis and figures of speech that include: similes idioms alliteration sequence of events quotation marks parts of speech These exercises challenge students to: recall details draw conclusions make inferences make comparisons consider word meanings