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ENGLISH HANDOUT READING COMPREHENSIONWIND SONG BY KAREN
MOORE
Name
Grade
Date
Objetivos:1. Comprender un texto narrativo a nivel
descriptivo.2. Comprender el significado de palabras a travs del
contexto.
Habilidades:
1. Identificar.2. Aplicar.3. _ Relacionar.
VOCABULARY
wind= show off= think-thought=sod cabin= lifting= walked
away=
pioneer= knees= canary=tasks= clapping= lifted=hear= jubilation=
swelled=
plains= trip= chest= journey= once a month= joyous=landscapes=
affair= trill=
billows of dust= looked forward= delight=quilt= unlike=
regretted=sewing machine= store= endlessly=sewed clothes= cage= did
battle=fields= bird= loudly=meals= wooden= fierce=laundry= grocer=
burst out=flatbread= wandered= sunshine=
trade= dusty= tried=goods= hopped= could-couldn` t=town= perch=
moaning=complaining= still= humming=dirt= shadow= faint=mud= over=
hidden=singing= heart= background=telling stories= beat=
truly=clearing rows= faster= mended=turned= barter= neighbors=to
look= discouraged= lonely=
proudly= shopkeepers= guests=masterpiece= stared= news=
Liceo Andrs Bello A-94Unidad Tcnica PedaggicaDepartamento de
InglsSrta. Carmen TorrealbaCurso: NM 2
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nodded= puzzled= shared=motionless= gathered them up=
relieved=sick= rushed= blessed=raining= root cellar= alive=dark=
yelled= furniture=
outside= warn= forgotten memories=deathly= took off=
inherited=quiet= running= fate=oxen= waving= bundle of
lace=thunderclouds= halfway= unwrapped=stacked= reached=
unfolding=heaviness= searched= burial cloth=
prickly= lied= dried up=thunder= played tricks=
preserved=echoed= grabbed=mind= lasted=odd= shelter=
behavior=angry=strange=danger=shouted=screaming=
began=
READING COMPREHENSION
Pay attention to:
1.- Who are the characters involved?
2.- How do the main characters intervene in the development of
the story?
3.- How can you describe the main characters?
4.- Where do the actions occur?
5.- Identify the main episode in the story.
6.- Think of differences between the beginning and the end of
the story concerning to periods of time and characters.
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E NGLISH HANDOUT READING COMPREHENSION
WIND SONG BY CAROL MOOREName
Grade
Date
Liceo Andrs Bello A-94Unidad Tcnica PedaggicaDepartamento de
InglsSrta. Carmen TorrealbaCurso: NM 2
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by Carol Moore
It was a day like the day before and the day after. The
windwrapped itself around the sod cabin in gusting moans as the
pioneer family within carried out their tasks pretending not to
hear.They heard the wind, however. It had been their
constantcompanion on the open plains since their journey
fromPhiladelphia two years before in the spring of 1865. Following
thecovered wagon train of ten, the wind had lifted the drab
landscapeinto billows of dust falling on everyone and everything
until thereseemed but one color and one sound.
Now Rachel sat on the bed hand-stitching aquilt while her mother
hunched over a sewingmachine across theroom rocking her feet
backwards and forwards ona foot treadle that turned the shaft
that moved the needle. Thethumping counter pointed the wind
outside. Laughter and gigglingerupted from Rachel's younger brother
and sister playing jacks onthe floor and it brought a smile to
their sister's face, but when sheglanced back at their mother she
stopped
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The woman stood in the door of the attic and sighed. Gray and
dusty in thehalf light, the room was filled with old furniture,
boxes and a thousandforgotten memories. She had inherited its
contents from her grandmother andnow faced the chore of deciding
the fate of each piece. Attracted to an old
sewing machine, so old that it had a foot treadle, she opened
the top drawer.Amidst the buttons and needles and scissors was a
tiny bundle of lace neatlytied with ribbon. Curious she picked it
up and unwrapped it. To her surpriseshe found she was unfolding the
burial cloth of a canary, its body long agodried up but carefully
preserved. Holding it in her right hand she stared,
perplexed, and quite unconsciously put her left hand over her
heart.
