Answers for Summer Reading Club: "The Jigsaw Puzzle"

This is the first story in After Shocks, pp. 9 - 14. Here are the answers to the exercises that begin on p. 15.

SELECTING DETAILS FROM THE STORY
1. a 2. c 3. b 4. c
HANDLING STORY ELEMENTS
1. c 2. b 3. a (See p. 7 for setting.) 4. c
OBSERVING NEW VOCABULARY WORDS
1. a 2. b 3. c 4. a
KNOWING HOW TO READ CRITICALLY
1. c 2. b 3. a 4. c

Please post a comment below or send email to let me know how you did with the questions.
Mr. R
dratzlaff@coastline.edu

It's Over!

Thanks for the gift and the great party. I'll miss you! Have a great summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Ulsy6dLGs&feature=related

Summer Reading Club

Some of you have said that you would like to improve your reading skills during the summer. One way to do this is to buy a book with the answers in the back, and a number of you have done that. Another way to improve reading is to read short stories and check your answers here on The World of Mr. R during the summer.

I will be using After Shocks by Burton Goodman. You can buy it from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/After-Shocks-Startling-Comprehension-Enrichment/dp/0890617511/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1306173001&sr=1-1

There are 15 stories. I will give you time to read a story and then I will put the answers on The World of Mr. R. You can email questions that you have to . . .

dratzlaff@coastline.edu

The American Songbook

Ask your children what they are singing in elementary school these days. When I was in elementary school, children all over the United States learned the same songs. Here is one of those songs:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kentuckyderby#p/u/7/SryB2Cgb-SY

Of course, the Kentucky Derby is an American tradition, the one horse race that millions of Americans watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQsMgu9rr1k

I was at the San Diego Zoo recently and saw a bird which reminded me of another song that we used to sing in elementary school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Uq6AB_4hM

Shall we try it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1fO1je3Oxg&NR=1