Na m e : ___ _
Directions:Date:Read the story below about a character nicknamed OT. Follow the events of the story
to find out how he got his nickname. Then answer the questions.O.T. Sander was born Oliver Thomas Sander. The O.T. came later and if
you were to think that O.T. stands for Oliver Thomas, you’d be wrong.
Oliver Thomas was due to be born on September 21, but his mamma
and papa knew babies rarely come exactly on the day they are
predicted to come. So, on September 21, they weren’t ready, but Oliver
Thomas came as scheduled. Papa hurried up and got the nursery
ready, and when Oliver Thomas came home from the hospital right on
time, his room was ready.
Mama and Papa Sander were attentive parents. They knew new babies
needed to be fed on a schedule. They agreed to take turns for the 2:00 am feeding. The first
night, they were both so tired, they would’ve slept right through it, but Oliver Thomas woke
them up screaming at precisely 2:00 am that night and every night for the next few weeks.
And so it went that Oliver Thomas grew to be a big, healthy boy. He ate breakfast at 8:00,
lunch at noon, and dinner at 6:00. He brushed his teeth (after he got some) at 7:30, took a
bath at 7:40, listened to Mama or Papa read a story, then fell asleep at 8:15.
The night before he started kindergarten, Mama told him it was important to be on time.
Oliver Thomas walked into class at exactly 9:00 am and, at 11:29 he got ready to go
home—every single day. If the teacher said he could use the paint table for 15 minutes,
that’s what Oliver Thomas did.
Throughout first grade, the other kids would keep looking on the back wall at the clock (the
ones who could tell time and even the ones who couldn’t) to see what time it was (and how
long until lunch or recess). Oliver Thomas never looked at the clock. He just knew. By the
end of first grade, or maybe even sooner, some people started calling him O.T. It stuck.- The first paragraph gives you a hint about what the goal of the story is. What is it?
____________________________________________________________________________________- The author never tells you what O.T. stands for but gives you lots of clues. What did you
conclude it stands for? _______________________________________________________________- What was the very first thing Oliver Thomas did to earn his nickname? _____
____________________________________________________________________________________- Find and write at least four words from the story that have something to do with time.
____________________________________________________________________________________- Are you more like Oliver Thomas or unlike him, and why? ____
____________________________________________________________________________________