The Forty Coats Man

The Forty Coats Man is a short story about a girl helping a homeless man after he is accused of poisoning some pigs. The book also discusses text connections, planning a short story, and features of a short story. 

The text is divided into chapters and a Contents is provided.  A variety of sentence types is used.  Illustrations support and enhance the text. Text boxes call attention to literary features such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, imagery, personification, similes, and metaphors and prompt the use of comprehension strategies, such as questioning, predicting, inferring, analyzing, and clarifying.

The text uses descriptive language.

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