What would you do if you saw a rat? A short reading passage explains what John and Rick do when they see a rat, as well as what they do when it tries to escape.

Concepts

rats, reading comprehension, literacy skills

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a literacy center with struggling readers or English learners
• Have class members work on the questions at home with parents
• Incorporate into a lesson on prepositional phrases

Classroom Considerations

• Passage is simple and questions address only recall skills, which is beneficial for lower levels of readers but not as helpful for advanced learners
• Clarify some of the more dialect-specific phrases, such as Rick was very near it

Pros

• Comprehension questions are in multiple-choice format
• Easy copying for a double-sided worksheet

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.1