Reading 2 1
Read this story and answer the questions.
Grandma was planning to bake a mango pie for me and my brother, Alex, and we decided to play a trick on her. We scrambled up into the old mango tree and hid in its branches. Soon Grandma came along and began to bang the tree hard with her walking stick to make the mangoes fall down. Blow after blow landed on the trunk. “Ow!” we yelled. Grandma belted the tree again. Again, we shrieked. Grandma paused and scratched her head. We had to stifle our giggles but, to our horror, Grandma declared, “It look like I hurting dis poor tree. I better stop. But now der won’ be no mango pie for dem likkle children.” You can imagine the speed at which we leapt from that tree, squealing, “Grandma! Grandma! It was we shoutin’, not de tree. Please pick de mangoes an’ make de pie.” Grandma laughed and laughed. She knew all along that we were up there.
Think carefully about where to find the answers to questions about a text. • Sometimes you can find the information right there in the text, e.g. question 1. • Sometimes the answer is in the text but you have to think and search to find it. • Sometimes you use your own ideas, based on what you have read in the text.
1 Why did Grandma hit the tree? 2 What is the best title for this story? a) Up the Mango Tree
b) A Trick that Went Wrong
c) No Mango Pie
3 Why did the children leap down from the tree? 4 Who played the best trick? The children or grandma? Why do you think that? 5 Copy and complete a table like the one below. Characters Setting Beginning Conflict Resolution 2 Context clues
Looking at words in context (the surrounding words and
Find these words in the story. Write a definition. Use context clues to help you.
sentences) helps us to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.
stifle
blow
shrieked
belted
• Before reading the teaching box invite students to tell you how they find the answers to comprehension questions. • Reading strategies: Encourage students to pause during reading and summarise what they have read so far; to predict what may happen next; to visualise what they are reading about; to use charts and diagrams to help them understand the structure of the text and to ask questions about the text. Demonstrate these strategies by ‘thinking aloud’ as you model reading.
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