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Reading Comprehension
Volume 4, Number 17, January 19, 1999
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Fish Sticks
Mr. El was walking
past the office toward his fourth grade classroom. He wanted to correct
some papers before his kids were done with lunch. Suddenly, he heard
Mr. Kay’s voice summoning him from the open door.
“Mr El,
can I see you for a minute?” the principal called out.
Mr. El walked into
the office and sat down in the big wooden rocking chair that Mr. Kay
kept by his desk. Many a wayward child had sat in that chair. Mr. El
hoped that he hadn’t done anything too wayward.
“What’s up?” he asked.
Mr. Kay sat back
in his chair, took a deep breath, and sighed. “I just got a
call from Mrs. Cook. She’s very upset about today’s
lunch count in her cafeteria.”
“Oh?”
Mr. El replied innocently.
“It
seems that about half of your students refused to have any of her fish
sticks with their meals. She thinks you might have said something to
them that made that happen.”
Mr. El gazed at
the ceiling thoughtfully. “Maybe it was the worm
thing,” he said.
“She
said something about worms,” Mr. Kay responded,
“but she was so angry, I couldn’t quite make it
out.”
Mr. El looked
surprised at her reaction. “I did just happen to mention, as
a joke of course, that the fish sticks were really made of ground up
earthworms. I explained that they were flavored with fish guts,
breaded, and then fried in motor oil.”
“Apparently,
a lot of your kids believed it was true,” Mr. Kay stated.
“Mr. El, I’ll leave it to you to undo the
damage.”
“Yes,
Sir,” Mr. El promised as he rose and started for the door.
“And
what was that thing about maggots?” Mr. Kay asked.
“No, wait. Don’t answer! I don’t want to
know!”
1. Mrs. Cook was in charge of _______________.
a. the science department
b. food services
c. collecting bad jokes
d. reporting bad behavior to the principal
2. Mr. El was wrong if he thought that _______________.
a. all his kids would know he was
just kidding about the fish sticks
b. the fish sticks were really healthy
c. things you say can make people angry
d. worms can be eaten
3. It’s quite likely that Mr. El _______________.
a. is Mrs. Cook’s
favorite teacher
b. is not fond of the school’s
fish sticks
c. likes to eat fried worms
d. never tries to make jokes
4. A serious moral to this story could be:
a. Never eat raw fish.
b. Don’t make a big deal about a
silly joke.
c. Be careful what you say; people might
just believe you.
d. Beware of principals with rocking chairs.
5. Mr. El will keep his promise to Mr. Kay by apologizing to Mrs. Cook, and telling his students _______________.
a. to consider
whether or not someone is just kidding
b. not to talk to her anymore
c. that eating worms is better than eating
anything else
d. that the ground worms were really fried
in vegetable oil
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Copyright 1999 RHL
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