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Dog and His Bone

Title

The Dog and His Bone

Reading Text

One day, a dog finds a big bone in a trash can. He is very happy and runs home. On his way, he crosses a bridge. He looks down into the water and sees his own reflection. However, he thinks it is another dog with a bigger bone! The dog is greedy. He decides to leap into the water to steal the other bone. SPLASH! When he opens his mouth to bark, his bone falls and starts to sink. The dog swims to the shore with nothing.

Activities

Vocabulary

Definitions:
  • Text: A hard white piece inside the body that dogs love to eat.
  • Text: A container where we put garbage or rubbish.
  • Text: A structure built to cross over a river or road.
  • Text: The image of yourself that you see in a mirror or water.
  • Text: When someone wants more than they need.
  • Text: To jump a long distance.
Items:
  • Label: Bone
    Answer: A
  • Label: Trash can
    Answer: B
  • Label: Bridge
    Answer: C
  • Label: Reflection
    Answer: D
  • Label: Greedy
    Answer: E
  • Label: Leap
    Answer: F
Fill In The Blanks:
  • Before: The dog found a delicious
    Answer: bone
    After: in the trash can.
  • Before: He walked across the
    Answer: bridge
    After: to go back to his home.
  • Before: He looked in the water and saw his
    Answer: reflection
    After: looking back at him.
  • Before: The dog was
    Answer: greedy
    After: and wanted the bigger bone.
  • Before: The bone fell from his mouth and started to
    Answer: sink
    After: to the bottom.
Scrambled:
  • Text: To be generated
    Answer: The dog found a bone.
  • Text: To be generated
    Answer: He looked into the water.
  • Text: To be generated
    Answer: He jumped into the river.
  • Text: To be generated
    Answer: Be happy with what you have.
  • Text: To be generated
    Answer: The bone sank in the water.

Comprehension

Questions:
  • Text: The dog found the bone in a supermarket.
    Answer: false
  • Text: The dog saw a cat in the water.
    Answer: false
  • Text: The dog thought the other bone was bigger.
    Answer: true
  • Text: The dog jumped into the water to play.
    Answer: false
  • Text: In the end, the dog lost his bone.
    Answer: true

Written Expression

Questions:
  • Text: Why did the dog jump into the water?
  • Text: What is the moral (the lesson) of this story?
Examples:

Here are some example answers:

1. Why he jumped:

  • "He jumped because he was greedy."
  • "He wanted to steal the bone from the other dog."

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