Language Arts: Storm p 252 and page 260

Storm Question Response Scaffolding

This is intended to help those students who are not sure how to write complete sentence answers see how the complete sentence answers need to be written.
Students are required to rewrite the complete answer on lined paper.

Story: Storm from Woodsong by Gary Paulsen pages 244-252

Reading Check p. 252

1. The narrator of these stories about Storm is the writer ________________ who is also the dog's companion.
2. This story is told in the (first-person) OR (third-person) point of view as the narrator is also a main character using pronouns such as I.
3. Create a graph or flow chart which shows the structure of Gary Paulsen's text:

Paulsen Introduces Storm

Anecdote #1: Storm and the ______

Anecdote #2: ______ and the stove

Anecdote #3: Storm and the _______

4. In the selection, Storm teaches Gary Paulsen a lesson about _______________________________________. Storm does this by ______ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

5. By describing Storm, Gary Paulsen gives us clues to his own character. From this, I can infer that Gary is ________________________.

6. I think that the author's main idea in writing this selection is __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. Biography or Autobiography: Explain which this selection is and give at least one sentence proving why it is either a biography or autobiography.


Writing Response: Write a short paragraph or 2 from Storm's point of view in which you write about your companion, Gary Paulsen.



Reading Informational Materials
Bringing Tang Home / Where the Heart Is page 260

1. Possible Main Ideas
Write down the name of any of the 3 selections which share a main idea
Storm=Storm Bringing Tang Home=Tang Where the Heart Is=Heart

A. Humans and animals have a special bond	B. There are many things about animals that humans can't explain
C. Animals may understand humans better than humans understand animals	D. Humans can learn from their animal friends

2. For each story, write which main idea best describes which and explain why

Storm=_______________________________________________________________

Bringing Tang Home=___________________________________________________

Where the Heart Is=____________________________________________________


Test Practice #1-4:

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