A New Chewing Gum

A New Chewing Gum

By Elizabeth Halter

• Fold your paper into 8 pieces (3 fold)s

• ​Write T for title in the first box.

• Write F or NF for fiction or nonfiction in the second box.

• ​Write P for prediction on the third box

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Create your organizer using lined paper

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Complete the first three boxes using the non-fiction text features from the article. Do not read it yet!​

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Now that you know this text is nonfiction, number the rest of the boxes 1-8.

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Read the article. Stop at the end of each paragraph to think about the topic of that paragraph. Write the topic in the box that matches on your organizer.

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Multiple Choice

What question does paragraph 2 answer?

• Why did Thomas Adams want to buy chicle?

• What things can be made from white chicle?

• Who showed Thomas Adams some chicle?

• What was used to make gum before chicle?

Multiple Choice

In paragraph 3 why did Thomas Adams buy a large amount of chicle?

• He needed it in order to experiment.

• He wanted to sell a great deal of gum.

• He thought he could sell it to inventors.

• He knew the price would soon go up.

Multiple Choice

What question is answered in paragraph 4?

• Why was a little girl buying something at a store?

• Where did Adams get the idea to make chicle gum?

• What is the most popular gum in Mexico?

• How did Adams sell the chewing gum? 

Multiple Choice

At first Tom Jr. did not sell any gum because —

• no one was interested in trying it

• customers liked the chewing wax

• the gum had an unusual taste

• it was not wrapped in pretty paper

Multiple Choice

Chicle gum became more popular than wax gum because it —

• had a good name

• seemed smoother

• was wrapped in paper

• cost only one cent

Multiple Choice

If the author added information about gum flavors, in which paragraph would it fit best?

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Multiple Choice

Read this dictionary entry.  

ma•te•ri•al (m etîr´e–- e l) n. 1. Cloth. 2. Tool for a task.

3. Part out of which a thing is made. adj. 4. Very necessary. 

In paragraph 2, which meaning of material is used?

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Multiple Choice

What information best supports the idea that Adams did not give up?

• He asked his son to sell chicle gum.

• He worked at many different jobs.

• He worked with the chicle for a year.

• He met General Santa Anna.