What Does the Text Say?
What is the text mostly about?
Little Bear did not want to do his chores. His chore was to pull weeds, but he said in paragraph 7 and 9 "It is too hard." He soon learned the value of hard work.
What does the illustration on page 6 tell you about Little Bear?
The illustration on page 6 tells me that Little Bear refuses to do his chores because he has his arms crossed.
Little Bear is annoyed that he has to pull weeds.
What is the central message or lesson of this story? Use text evidence to support your answer.
Hard work pays off.
What does Little Bear choose to do instead of pulling weeds?
Instead of pulling weeds Little Bear in paragraphs 10 and 11 chooses to stay in his room and only have bread and water for dinner.
What else do you learn from the illustration on page 6?
Little Bear and Momma Bear were the only two pulling weeds.
Little Bear lives in the woods.
How did Little Bear change throughout the story?
Little Bear changed throughout the story because in the beginning of the story he did not want to pull weeds. In the middle of the story he begins to learn that in order to get something he had to do something. By the end of the story he learns that hard work pays off.
How does he feel about his choice when it is dinnertime.
When it was dinner time Little Bear feels that he did not make the right choice. In paragraphs 12 - 17. He asked his parents if he could have dinner and agreed to complete his chores the next day.
What does the Father Bear mean when he says that Little Bear will not get to eat "the good stuff"?
Father Bear means that Little Bear will have to eat bread and water. In paragraph 18 the good stuff was fired fish and mashed potatoes.
What helped him change?
He realized that he had to do work in order to get something in return like eating the good food.
Why does Father Bear agree to give Little Bear his dinner?
Father Bear agrees to give Little Bear his dinner in paragraph 16 Little Bear agrees to "weed the blackberry patch and hoe the corn."
What is the authors point of view about hard work?
If you want to eat you have to work hard.
If you don't work hard you will not get great things.
What kind of parent is Father Bear?
Father Bear wants Little Bear to do his work even if it hard so he can overcome thinking it is too hard to complete the chore.
What does Little Bear do after he eats?
After Little Bear eats in paragraph 19, "He went to the blackberry patch and weeded."
How does Little Bear feel at the end of the story?
A sad to be alone
B pleased with himself
C lonely without his mom
D angry about working
B Pleased with himself
What sentence from the passage gives you the first clue that Little Bear does not want to do his chores.
A One morning Little Bear was sent outside to pull weeds.
B His mom went to check on him.
C So Little Bear ate bread and drank water.
D She found him staring at the sky
D She found him staring at the sky.