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“Child’s Play”
Have you ever thought about sailing across an ocean? Do you think you could do it on a log? Meet two children who see an adventure differently.
Vocabulary
You will find these words in today's reading.
cargo: (n.) a load of goods carried by a ship, airplane, truck, or other vehicle
The truck delivered its cargo of fruits and vegetables to the store.
parrot-fish: (n.) a fish that has tusk-like teeth that look like a beak I read about the unusual teeth of the parrot-fish in an encyclopedia.
peevishly: (adv.) in a cross or annoyed manner
My friend spoke to me peevishly when she did not agree with what I said.
Think Ahead
1. Look through the pages of Classics for Young Readers. Use the table of contents to locate the story “Child’s Play” and open to the first page.
2. Preview the story by scanning its paragraphs and looking at the picture. What do you notice about the structure of the story? How is the structure of the story different from the structure of poems and/or plays that you have read?
3. What does it mean to pretend?
Read
“Child’s Play” in Classics for Young Readers, Vol. 4A, pages 6–7.
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Questions
Answer the following questions in complete sentences in your Reading Notebook.
1. What does the second child see the first child doing by the roadside?
2. When the first child sees the water, what does the second child see?
3. Describe the island scene the first child spots from the boat.
4. Why does the second child stop playing with the first child?
5. How does the first child react when the second child walks
away?
Discuss
1. Why do you think the second child doesn’t like the game the first child is playing?
2. What does it mean when the first child says, “It’s all the same”?
How Do You See It?
When you read a story, there are many ways to learn about its characters. The story may have details about the characters or only give clues about them. In this story we are not given physical descriptions of the boys, but we do learn about them from their words and actions.
Think about how the first child and the second child are different. What does each boy think of the other? Answer the questions on the page called How Do You See It?
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