A Great Day for Snorkeling

Reading Comprehension

The Student demonstrates confidence, independence, and flexibility in the strategic use of reading skills, critical thinking and the conventions of language for reading a range of simple to complete texts.

Expectations: The student applies critical thinking skills to enhance and improve the following reading skills:
Identifies and recalls details
Paraphrases sentences and ideas
Recalls events and their sequence
Draws conclusions
Infers cause and effect relationships
Identifies the main idea and supporting details
Predicts outcomes
Summarizes

What can you tell looking to the first page?
Have you ever went snorkeling?
Can you tell me about your snorkeling experience?

VOCABULARY
snorkeling: swimming under water with mask and snorkel
ride: to take a trip
mask: a special covering that protects a swimmer’s eyes underwater
splash: to fall or strike with a splashing noise
cloudy: not clear
pounded: beating quickly or loudly
popped: to go, to enter, to come forth suddenly
padding: pushing with the hands and feet to move through the water
grabbed: to take hastily, to snatch
dove: to submerge

FIND OUT:
Who is the author?
Who is the illustrator?
What can you tell after looking at the first page?
Have you ever went snorkeling?
Can you tell me about your snorkeling experience?
Who is the narrator?
Where is the setting?

Story: A great Day for Snorkeling
1. Who is the author?
2. Who is the illustrator?
3. Who is telling the story?
4. What do you need to go snorkeling?
5. What the girl wanted to do?
6. Who says, “It’s a great day for a boat ride”?
7. Who says, “snorkeling sounds like something pigs do”?
8. While snorkeling the girl heard what?
9. The girl got scared thinking that the shade was what?
10. The girl shouted back at the boat asking for what?
11. Who changed her mind?
12. Who scared the girl?
13. What grandma and the girl did at the end?
14. Grandma pointed to what?

TEST ON TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2010
READING COMPREHENSION

CAUSE AND EFFECT – TEST ON TUESDAY, April 13, 2010