Na m e : _______________________________________ Date: _____________________Directions: Read the story and answer the questions.Details, details, details...paying attention to details
makes you a better reader.Read the sentences below and write down what you think would have happened
in the story if it were changed in the following ways:- The children were not on their best behavior. __
- Miss Baker had not dropped a handful of marbles into the jar on Wednesday
afternoon. _____
- The marble jar was filled only halfway. _____
- The students didn’t make a sign-up sheet to bring the jellybeans. _____
- Megan didn’t see the other students getting their jellybean bags out.
Whenever the students in Room 23 were on their best behavior,
their teacher, Miss Baker, would drop marbles into a glass jar.
“Kerplunk, kerplunk, kerplunk” into the jar the marbles
went on a sunny Wednesday afternoon. As the children
looked up from their desks and reading books, they saw the
handful of marbles overflowing onto the tabletop. “Hurrah,” exclaimed
John, “we get to have a jellybean party!”
On Thursday, the class made a list of all the jellybean colors, and each student
signed up to bring a bag full of jellybeans to share with the class. This was their
reward; they were allowed to share and enjoy the jellybeans. Excitedly, all the
students signed up to bring a specific color to class the next day for the party.
On Friday morning as the students were filing into the classroom, Megan noticed the
other students removing the jellybean bags from their backpacks. “Oh no,” she
thought, “I forgot mine at home! Maybe Mom is still home and can drop it off on
her way to work.”