Reading

Getting Ready Stories

Text Structure STORY

Book B (A-7)

McCall-Crabbs A20 (N)

McCall-Crabbs B1 (N)

McCall Crabbs A1 (I)

McCall-Crabbs B24 (I)

McCall-Crabbs A12 (I-N)

McCall-Crabbs C44 (I-N)

Text Structure STORY Example

Narrative Organizers

One day when Jack was fishing with his father, he had a big fish on his line. Jack was pulling and pulling on the line to get the fish. The fish was pulling and pulling on the line to get away. Then the fish gave me big jump out of the water, and the fishing pole went flying out of Jack’s hand. The fish went away down into the water, and the fishing pole went right after him.

Write down on your paper the following:

a good Title for this short story:
The purpose:
The characters:
The setting:
and the Event (Plot)

Is the story about a boy and a dog?
Is the story about a boy fishing?
Is Jack the name of the boy?
Did Jack go fishing with Tom?
Did Jack's Father stay at home?

Did the boy have a fishing pole?
Was the fish a little fish?
Was Jack pulling on the line?
Was the fish pulling on the line?
Did the fishing pole go in the water?

Getting ReadY Story #1

Getting Ready

SAY AND KNOW

playful
grin
dolphin
bottle
nosed
tease

Sample - A Sea Clown

Answer the following questions:

It means a wide smile. grin humor frown
It has an f sound spelled with ph bottle tease dolphin
It means to play jokes on. playful learn tease
Write the first small word in playful. ___________________

A Sea Clown

In the waters of the sea lives a playful animal with a big grin. This animal, the bottle-nosed dolphin, is a cousin to the whale.

The dolphin likes to play around ships at sea. Even when caught and kept in a tank, it shows a sense of fun. It will tease the fish and animals around it. Dolphins love to play catch. They will throw back what they catch. They can learn many tricks. They will jump through hoops for fish.

TEST Yourself

The dolphin is a sea animal with a sense of _____________.
From the story, you can tell that
1. a dolphin is a big whale.
2. a dolphin loves to play.
The story as a whole is about
1. the whale.
2. playing catch.
3. ships at sea.
4. the bottle-nosed dolphin.

A dolphin swims very slowly
1. Yes
2. No
3. Does not say
Dolphins refuse to play catch.
1. Yes
2. No
3. Does not say
What word in line 6 of the story means to play jokes on?

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