Text Interpretation: Swimming Lessons

Text interpretation activity, aimed at students in the third year of elementary school, with questions developed about the text: Swimming lessons.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Swimming classes

All children on Firefly Island learn to swim from an early age. They take classes with the father of the dinosaur Dino.
Dirty the hyena never learned to swim.
- For what? Where I live is dry most of the year – he explains to his friends, with a disapproving way.
'Anyway, I'm scared of water,' he says.
– But it's so fun! - laughs the hippopotamus Horacio. The little friends ride their bikes towards the campsite for today's class with Mr. Dino.

- Hello everyone! – he greets as they jump into the water. – You must be the dirty one – he addresses the hyena, standing tensely on the beach.
- Hi - Dirty mumbles.
- You like to swim? – asks Mr. Dino.
- I do not know. I've never tried it – he babbles dirty.
– Well, let's start in shallow water, okay? – he helps Sujinho to enter the water a little. His friends are splashing, diving, screaming and partying around him.
“First let yourself float, then doggy-style swim… Er, I mean hyena kind… With your paws,” encourages Mr. Dino, holding dirty for a while.
Dirty is tense with fear, but slowly he relaxes. His feet start to give momentum, all by themselves!
- Excellent! - Shouts Mr. Dino. – You're swimming! Good job, little guy! – Dirty swims out.
– Hey, I'm actually swimming! – Dirty screams. Soon he is joining the rest of the swimmers.
– I can't believe it! – he gets carried away.

Questions

1) What is the title of the text?
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2) What do all children learn from childhood on the Firefly Islands?
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3) Why did Sujinho, the hyena, never learn to swim?
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4) Where do children go by bicycle?
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5) How did Mr. Dino start teaching Sujinho to swim?
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6) Can Sujinho learn to swim?
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Per Hélia Higa.

At answers are in the link above the header.