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Cause and Effect
Have students identify cause-and-effect
relationships in the story. For instance,
you may point out that a newspaper
reporter prints a story about the
theater as a result of the community’s
efforts to keep it open.
Sequence
Have students identify the order of
events in this story by having them
identify time and order words/phrases.
For instance, point out the signal words
just then
in the first paragraph on this
page. Have students point out other
signal words on this page.
Reading an Image
Have students look at the picture on
page 120. Ask:
Q
Who’s speaking with Sonia?
Q
What’s she doing as she speaks to
Sonia?
Q
What’s the image in the middle of
the page?
Reading Comprehension
Skills and Strategies
Unit 4
My Community
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Just then a newspaper reporter comes by. Her office is
behind the theater. “What’s going on here?” she asks.
Sonia runs over to the reporter. “We care about the Colonial
Theater. We want to keep it open! We have to try and save it.”
So the reporter writes a story about Sonia and the theater.
The next day, it is on the front page of the newspaper.
“The theater is special because it is old,” says Sonia in the story.
“It is part of our past. If we lose the theater, we lose a part
of our history.”
X
Who comes by the
theater?
X
Where is her office?
X
What does Sonia do
when she asks her a
question?
X
What does Sonia tell
her they have to do?
X
What does she do
after talking to Sonia?
X
Where does the story
appear?
X
Whose office is behind
the theater?
X
What does she ask
Sonia?
X
What happens the
next day?
X
Where does the story
appear?
X
What does Sonia
say would be lost if
the theater was torn
down?
X
Why is the newspaper
reporter curious?
X
What does Sonia tell
her about the theater?
X
Why does she write
an article about the
theater?
X
Who might read the
article about the
theater?
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