CHAPTER 1 LESSON
1
“How Well Can
You Listen?”
When you tell or write a story always put the sentences in order.
Read the sentences below.
A fish jumped from
the water.
It could not get
back to the water.
A turtle pushed it into the water.
The turtle saved the fish.
The sentences above tell a story. They tell
how a turtle saved a fish. The sentences are
written in an order that makes sense.
A. Listen to the story your parent reads.
A fox and a stork were good friends. One day
the fox decided to play a joke on the stork. He invited the stork to share
dinner with him. The stork agreed
happily. When the stork arrived
however, the fox placed a very shallow
dish of soup between them. The fox
could easily eat the soup, but the
stork's bill was too long to taste any of it. So the stork was just as hungry after dinner as before dinner. The fox, seeing his guest ate none of the soup, apologized, saying he was sorry the soup was not to the stork's liking. The stork said nothing about this however, but asked the fox to come by and
visit her tomorrow for dinner. The
fox happily agreed.
The fox arrived that next day very hungry. He found however that the dinner was contained in a very long-necked
jar, in which the stork easily thrust her; long
bill. All the fox could do was lick the
outside of the jar.
After dinner, the fox excused himself, and
went away thinking how the stork had turned
his own joke against him.
Write the six sentences from
the story in the correct order.
The fox could not eat
dinner.
The stork invited the fox
to dinner.
Dinner was served in a
flat dish.
The stork could not eat
dinner.
The fox invited the stork
to dinner.
Dinner was served in a
long-necked dish.
B. Can you tell a story you know? Remember
to tell the story in the order in which things happened.
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