Messages

Open Ended

Messages in Bottles

What type of genre is this passage?

Multiple Choice

In paragraph 3, the suffix –er in the word sender helps the reader understand that the word refers to —

• a person who sends

• an object that is sent

• the sending of something again

• the method used to send things

Multiple Choice

What happened as a result of someone finding a bottle that had been released by students in Hawaii in 2007?

• The bottle experiment quickly spread to other schools.

• people around the world were encouraged to find pen pals.

• Students tried to send messages in bottles to their classmates.

• Two people living in different parts of the world became friends.

Multiple Choice

The author wrote this selection most likely to —

• persuade the reader to try sending a message in a bottle

• tell the reader how to start a floating bottle experiment at school

• describe some examples of messages sent in bottles and tell what happened to them

• explain some of the challenges of trying to communicate with people who live across the ocean

Multiple Choice

Paragraphs 2 and 3 are mainly about —

• rewards people have received for returning bottles that were found

• what keeps bottles with messages in them from sinking in the ocean

• bottles that have drifted in the sea and then been found

• what people write on the notes that are placed inside bottles

Open Ended

What would you do if you find a message in a bottle?

 

Use ideas from the text to support your answer. Make sure to use R.A.C.E. strategy.