Dr. Dolitte: a Message from Africa
According to the selection, this character has sailed the most.
Who is: Polynesia (the parrot)
Which event lead to Parisa's decision to create a magazine?
She was bored, and her friends were away on vacation.
The farmers' market in Raleigh, North Carolina has this many sections.
What is: 5
This statement is the main idea of the text.
What is: The pretty dragonfly helps humans by catching insects.
Paragraphs 1 and 3 are connected because they both explain this.
What is: Both explain that the Earth is just one part of the solar system.
The cat's meat man brought the doctory meat pudding because of this reason.
Why is: it cannot be found in other countries.
Why did Parisa turn on the ceiling fan in her bedroom?
It helped her think of good ideas.
This will determine which fruits and vegetables are sold at the farmers' market.
What is: the season
This detail from the text support the idea that dragonflies are not harmful.
What is: "If we let it alone, it always lets us alone."
The sentences in paragraph 3 are connected in that they describe planets in this way.
What is: they describe the planets from closest to farthest from the sun.
According to the text, the Doctor needs an anchor because...
What is: to stop the ship.
How did Parisa show that she was determined to create a good magazine.
She had drawn pictures to go with each story.
According to the text, a person would go to this place in the farmers' market to buy antiques.
What is: the Market Imports building.
This sentence from the text supports the main idea that dragonflies are not harmful.
What is: "It catches mosquitoes and gnats and flies and other insects while flying."
The two sentences below are connected. The first is from paragraph 2, and the second is from paragraph 5.
"But to people on Earth, the sun looks biggest and brightest because it is much closer than other stars."
"We call them shooting, or falling, stars."
What is: Both describe what space objects look like from earth (how some stars look from earth).
Gub-gub calls the ship's beds this word.
What is "shelves."
According to the selection, how did Parisa feel about not winning first place in the contest?
She was a little disappointed.
The text says that it is important for people to use farmers' markets to buy fruits and vegetables instead of big grocery stores for this reason.
What is: to help support the local community and farmers.
This detail from the text supports the idea that dragonflies can see well.
What is: "Forty thousand eyes in one little dragonfly head."
Paragraphs 3 and 5 are connected in this way.
What is: Both paragraphs discuss the movement of planets and the movement of objects made from ice and rock.
According to the text, this animal stayed behind.
Who is: the horse.
Why did Parisa agree to continue with her magazine after the contest?
Her neighbors liked her work.
Paragraph 6 of the text answers this question.
What is: What to antique and vintage mean?
A statement that summarizes the text could be...
What is: "The dragonfly has large eyes and a large mouth to help it catch insects." (or something similar)
Paragraph 6 contributes to the rest of the text in this way.
What is: It explains that there is more to be learned about objects in space.