May 10, 2016
Reading comprehension: Passage 21 — Floating Islands (Places and Events)
- Read the passage aloud.
- Floating Islands
There is a place where people live on islands. The ground on the islands is soft and spongy. Sometimes the people take a step. Their feet go through the island and into water! This is because the islands float! They are floating in the middle of a lake. How can this be?
The lake is in Peru. The islands are made by the Uros people. The Uros people cut reeds that grow in the lake. They tie the reeds together to make islands. They live on the islands. They make their houses on the islands out of reeds, too. They also use the reeds to make boats.
Over time, the reeds begin to rot. A person might step in a rotten patch. What do the Uros do? They just add another layer of reeds to their island!
- Floating Islands
- Asses your understanding of the passage by responding to the comprehension questions.
- In the story, you are not told that the Uros people use reeds for . . . .
- islands
- boats
- houses
- clothes
- Most likely, what do the Uros people eat a lot of?
- fish
- corn
- beans
- apples
- Soft is to hard as . . . .
- reed is to plant
- rotten is to spongy
- float is to sink
- lake is to water
- In the story, you are not told that the Uros people use reeds for . . . .
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