Comprehension: Lesson 1 A Package for Mrs. Jewls

Louis passes out balls during recess.

A truck horn honks and disturbs the students.

Louis starts cleaning up junk on the playground.

Students toss pieces of paper and pencils into the schoolyard.

Louis.

Mrs. Jewls.

a first-person narrator.

a third-person narrator.

riding the elevator.

climbing up the stairs.

going down a long hallway.

walking across the schoolyard.

Mrs. Mush is cooking mushrooms in the cafeteria.

The students cannot be interrupted while they are working.

Mrs. Jewls' classroom is on the top floor of Wayside School.

The delivery person must give the package directly to Mrs. Jewls.

There is no main character.

The author is limited to describing one person.

The reader does not know the thoughts and feelings of any character.

The reader gets to know the thoughts and feelings of more than one character.

the use of quotation marks

the use of indented paragraphs

the use of pronouns such as I and we

the use of pronouns such as she and he

She holds a spelling bee.

She opens the door for Louis herself.

She chooses her best student to open the door.

She flips a coin to decide who will open the door.

Louis has worked so hard to deliver the computer to Mrs. Jewls.

Mrs. Jewls uses the computer in a way that the reader would expect.

the third-person narrator describes the humor of Mrs. Jewls' spelling bee.

the reader does not expect Mrs. Jewls to use the computer the way she does.

It makes the reader sad.

It adds humor and surprise.

It makes the passage predictable.

It makes the reader feel sorry for the students.

taking good care of her package.

picking up the paper and pencils.

putting the package where she wants it.

helping her teach the students about gravity.