The Truck

The Truck is a humorous, fictional story about a man whose truck falls apart on the way to the beach. The sentence pattern, “I am going up/down the hill” is repeated.

A map of the man’s trip is presented at the end of the story. Thought bubbles, as well as symbols, are used to visually convey the character’s thinking.

Interest words include beach and hull. The word Bang! is used repeatedly and is bolded. The initial consonant b appears in beach and bang.

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