Monday, January 28, 2013

More QAR: Explanations for "Three Little Pigs" QARs


Examples from "The Three Little Pigs"   

Right There
 questions:
1. How many little pigs were there? (The answer is right there – in the title and in the story.)
2. What did the third little pig buy?  (The answer is right there in the sentence that says that he bought it.)

Think and Search
 questions:
3.  What were the three materials the little pigs used to build houses?
           (You have to look in more than one place for the three different items.)
4.  How many times in the whole story did the wolf huff and puff?
           (Again, you have to look in more than one place and add up how many times
                he huffed and puffed.)

Author and You questions: 
5.  Which little pig are you most like?  (You have to read the story to know about the little pigs, but you add to that what you know about yourself.)
6.  Do you think the the wolf in "The Story of the Three Little Pigs" deserves any sympathy? 
       (You have to know the story to know about the wolf in it, but you have to add your own judgment to that.)

On Your Own
 questions:  (You can answer these questions without ever reading this story.)
7.  Do you look forward to the day you leave home to live on your own? 
8.  Have you ever done a job poorly that you later wished you'd done better?

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