Main Body
The Sixth Sense: Intuition
Learning Goals
In this chapter, you will learn to:
- Use pre-reading strategies
- Make predictions to check your understanding of a text
- Build your vocabulary
- Understand the main ideas, details, and sequence of a text
- Draw conclusions about characters’ emotions
- Add suffixes to 1-1-1 words
- Use commas in place names and dates
- Edit for subject-verb agreement
- Write a narrative paragraph
Get Ready to Read
Think about the questions below or discuss them with a partner.
- Describe a time when you had a gut feeling that was either right or wrong.
- Do you think people should trust their gut feelings?
- Do you think some people can predict the future?
Reading Strategy
Readers check their understanding of a text while they read. One strategy is to make predictions while you read. For example, read the first paragraph of The Sixth Sense: Intuition.
A fire broke out in the kitchen of a house in Chicago, Illinois. A team of firefighters kicked down the door of the house. They stood in the living room as they sprayed water at the fire in the kitchen. Strangely, the fire would not go out. One of the firefighters had a feeling that something was very wrong. “Get out, now!” he ordered. The team ran out of the house. Moments later, the floor they had been standing on in the living room collapsed.
Predict why the floor collapsed. Predict how the firefighter knew to get his team out of the house. Then read on to see if your predictions were correct. This strategy helps you actively think about what you are reading, to build a deeper understanding.
Use this strategy as you read The Sixth Sense: Intuition.
Vocabulary
Find these words in the text. Use the context to choose the best meaning.
| order | collapse | unusually | reputation | shortcut | inferior |
| reason | valued | spiritual | bias | accurate |
1. A quicker and easier way to get someplace or do something is called a _____________________.
2. A tendency to unfairly think of some things are better than others is called a _________________.
3. _____________________ means to break apart or fall down suddenly.
4. Something is _____________________ if it is free from mistakes or errors.
5. _____________________ means in a way that is not normal.
6. _____________________ means less in quality or importance.
7. _____________________ describes things related to the human soul.
8. _____________________ is the power of the mind to think and understand in a logical way.
9. A _____________________ is the way people think about something or someone.
10. Something that is _____________________ is thought of as important.
11. _____________________ means to tell someone to do something.
Check Your Understanding
1. Which of these sentences summarizes the main idea?
a. Firefighters use intuition to decide if a situation is safe.
b. Intuition is not as useful as reason when making decisions.
c. Intuition is a useful ability of the human brain that we should use in balance with