Flower Garden

Questions for students to answer orally: What flower do you like? * What color is your favorite flower? * Where do you find flowers?

Circling Questions

1.There is a garden around a house in the country. Is there a garden around a house in the country?

Is there a park around a house in the country?

Is there a garden or a park around a house in the country? What is there?

2. In that garden, there is Ro- sa the flower. Is there a flower?

Is there a flower named Rosa in the garden?

Is there a girl named Rosa in the garden?

Is there a flower or a girl named Rosa in the garden?

Where is Rosa the flower?

3. Rosa does not want to be in the sun because she gets very hot.

Who does not want to be in the sun?

Does Rosa want to be in the sun? Does Rosa the flower get hot or cold?

Who gets very hot?

Why doesn’t Rosa want to be in the sun?

4. She goes to a tree in the garden and asks the tree to stand in front of the sun. Who asks the tree to stand in front of the sun?

What does she ask the tree?

Does she go to a tree in the garden and asks the tree to stand in front of the sun?

Does she go to a flower in the garden and asks the flower to stand in front of the sun?

Does she go to a tree or a flower in the garden and asks it to stand in front of the sun?

5. The tree says, “I cannot cover the sun, I am too short.” Does the tree say “I am too short to cover the sun?”

Does the tree say “I am too skinny to cover the sun?”

Does the tree say “I am too short or too skinny to cover the sun?”

Is the tree too short to cover the sun?

What does the tree say? What is too short?

6. She goes to a taller tree and asks the tree to stand in front of the sun.

Does she go to a taller tree?

Does she go and asks the taller tree to stand in front of the sun? Does she go and ask the taller tree to stand in front of the house? Does she ask the taller tree to stand in front of the flower or to stand in front of the sun?

Does she ask the taller tree or the flower to stand in front of the sun? Where does she ask the tree to stand?

Who asks the tree to stand in front of the sun?

What does she ask the tree to do?

7. The tree says, “I am a little taller, but I cannot cover the sun.”

What does the tree say?

Is the tree a little taller?

Is the tree a little thinner?

Is the tree a little taller or a little thinner?

Can the tree cover the sun?

8. She looks for the tallest tree in the garden, and goes over to the tree and asks the tree to stand in front of the sun. Does she look for the tallest tree in the garden?

Does she go and ask the tallest tree to stand in front of the house? Does she ask the tallest tree or the tallest plant to stand in front of the sun?

What does she ask?

Who does she ask to stand in front of the sun?

9. The tree says, “Yes, I will stand right in front of you.”

Does the tree say “No?”

Does the tree say “Yes?”

Does the tree say “I will stand behind you?”

Does the flower say “I will stand right in front of you?”

Who says, “I will stand right in front of you?”

10. The sun no longer shines on her.

Does the sun no longer shine on her?

What no longer shines on Rosa?

Why doesn’t the sun shine on Rosa?

11. Rosa says, “Thank you” to the tree.

Does Rosa say, “See you later” to the tree?

Does Rosa say, “Thank you” to the tree?

Do you say, “Thank you” to the people?

Do you have to say “Thank you” to the people?

Why do you say “Thank you” to the people?

12. Rosa is very happy. Is Rosa happy? Is Rosa unhappy?

Who is very happy?

Are you happy or unhappy?

The Brown Cow

Questions for students to answer orally: Who likes to drink milk? * Who likes chocolate milk? What kind of milk do you like?

Circling Questions

1. There is a boy who likes to drink chocolate milk, but he cannot find any.

Is there a boy?

Is there a boy or a girl?

Who likes to drink chocolate milk?

Who cannot find chocolate milk?

Does the boy like to drink chocolate milk or juice?

What does the boy like to drink?

2. He goes to a farm in Colón named Mindy. Where does he go?

Does he go to a farm?

Does he go to a farm in Colón?

Does he go to a farm in Colón or to a farm in Coclé?

Is the name of the farm Mindy?

Is Nancy the name of the farm?

What is the name of the farm?

3. There he sees a black and white cow.

Does he see a black and white cow?

Is there a black and white cow?

Is there a black and white cow or a red cow?

Is there a black and white horse?

What does he see?

What color is the cow that he sees?

Have you seen a cow?

Are there cows in Panama?

Where do you see cows?

4. He asks the cow for chocolate milk.

Who asks for chocolate milk?

Does he ask the horse for chocolate milk?

Who does he ask for chocolate milk?

Does he ask the cow for chocolate milk or orange juice?

5. The cow says, “I am a black and white cow. I cannot give you chocolate milk.”

What does the cow say?

Who cannot give the boy chocolate milk?

What color is the cow?

Is there a blue cow?

Does the black and white cow give the boy chocolate milk?

Who says “I cannot give you chocolate milk?”

Does the cow say “I am a brown and white cow?”

Does the cow say “I am a black and white cow?”

Does the boy say “I am a black and white cow?”

6. He goes to another farm in Colón named Vacas Rojas. Does he go to another farm in Colón?

Does he go to a farm in Colón or to a farm in Aguadulce?

What is the name of the farm in Colón?

Is the name of the farm Vacas Rojas?

Is the name of the farm Vacas Rojas or Vacas Locas?

7. He sees a red cow there. Does he see a red cow?

Does he see a blue cow there?

What does he see?

Does he see a red cow or a blue cow?

What is the color of the cow he sees?

8. He asks the cow for chocolate milk, the cow says, ”I cannot give you chocolate milk, I am a red cow.”

What does he ask the cow for?

Does he ask for chocolate milk?

What does the cow say?

Does the cow say, “Yes?”

Does the cow say “I cannot give you chocolate milk?”

What color is the cow?

Is there a yellow cow?

Is there a red cow or a yellow cow?

Who asks the cow for chocolate milk?

9. He goes to another farm in Colón named Brown Star. Does he go to another farm in Colón?

Is the name of the farm Brown Star?

Is the name of the farm Brown Star or Blue Star?

Who goes to Colón?

Does he go to a farm in Colón or to a farm in Chitré?

Does he went to a farm in Colon or to a farm in Capira?

Does he go to a farm in Colón or to a farm in Capira?

10. He sees many brown cows there. He asks one of the cows for chocolate milk. Does he see many brown cows there?

Does he see many brown cows or many brown monkeys there? What does he see?

Does he ask two of the cows for chocolate milk?

Does he ask one of the cows for chocolate milk? Does he ask to one or two of the cows for chocolate milk? What does he ask for?

11. The cow says, ”You can have all of the chocolate milk you want. I am a brown cow”. The boy is very happy.

What does the cow say?

Does the cow tell him to have all the chocolate milk he wants? What color is the cow?

Is the cow brown?

Is the cow brown or yellow?

Is the boy happy?

Is the boy happy or sad?

Is the boy sad? Who is happy?

CHAPTER 7 STORY Barney the Bear

1. There is a small bear. Is there a small bear? Is there a big bear?

What is there?

Q. A. Questions for students to answer orally: Do you like cookies? * Do you like hot or cold cookies? * Does your mother bake cookies?

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Circling Questions

5. Barney’s mother says, “No, the cookies are hot.”

Is there a small bear or a big bear?

2. His name is Barney. Is his name Barney?

Is his name Pluto?

Is his name Barney or Pluto? What is his name?

3. Barney’s mother is baking cookies. Who is baking cookies? Is Barney’s mother baking cookies?

What is Barney’s mother baking? Is Barney’s mother baking cookies or cupcakes?

Do you like cookies?

What kind of cookies do you like?

4. Barney wants to eat a cookie. Barney goes to the kitchen and asks his mother for a cookie.

Who wants to eat cookies?

Does Barney want to eat cookies?

Does Barney go to the kitchen? Does Barney go to the kitchen or to the bathroom?

What does Barney ask his mother for?

Do you ask your mother for cookies?

What does Barney’s mother say to him?

Does Barney’s mother say, “Yes?” Were the cookies hot?

Were the cookies hot or cool? What was hot?

6. Barney is sad. Then, Barney goes to the living room and asks his uncle for a cookie. Is Barney sad? Is Barney sad or happy?

Where does Barney go? Does Barney go to the living room or to the kitchen?

Who does Barney ask for cookies? Does he ask his uncle for a cookie?

7. His uncle says, “No” too. Barney goes to the patio and plays with his brother and sister.

What does his uncle say?

Does his uncle say, “No?”

Where does Barney go?

Does he go to the patio?

Does he go to the patio or to the garage?

Does he go to the patio to play or to sleep?

Does Barney play with his brother and sister?

Does Barney play with his cousin? Who does he play with?

8. Finally, Barney’s mother calls the children to eat cooled cookies with milk. The little bears are very happy. Who calls the children?

Does Barney’s mother call the children?

Does she call them to eat cookies and milk?

Does she call them to eat cookies and milk or to eat cupcakes and juice?

Are the cookies hot?

Are the cookies cool?

Are the cookies cool or hot?

Do you like cookies and milk?

Do you like cookies and soda?

What do you like?

Are the bears happy?

Are the bears happy or sad?

Who is happy?

CHAPTER 8