Steamboat School Sequencing R1

By: Deborah Hopkinson

Illustrated by: Ron Husband

Inspired by a true story.

Steamboat
School

Open Ended

What's your good thing?

Multiple Choice

When did James begin to follow Tassie regularly?

• after his first day of school

• before Tassie went to school

• on Monday

• in the morning

Multiple Choice

Which line supports the answer to the previous question?

(James followed Tassie regularly everyday after the first day of school.)

• "I followed Tassie regular after that"

• "though I couldn't get used to the darkness."

• "But I liked when Reverend John red to us or told us his own story--"

• "how he was born a slave"

Multiple Choice

What happened before Reverend John could buy liberty for his wife?

• Tassie led James to school everyday.

• Reverend John to his story about being born a slave.

• His wife's master brought her to St. Louis.

• Reverend John went to work as a barrel maker and a carpenter.

Multiple Choice

Which word or words support the answer to the previous question?

• first

• before

• next

• after that

Multiple Choice

Which words show the story is moving from one event (idea) to the next?

• "And then one day,"

• "They shouted."

• "Footsteps pounded."

• "The door flew open."

Multiple Choice

When did James ask Rev. John to write out the law on a scrap of paper.

• First

• Next

• Then

• Later

Multiple Choice

When did Tassie and James begin to help Reverend John?

• One morning

• the first day of school

• when their work was finished

• after Reverend John showed them the steamboat and asked for help

Multiple Choice

Which words show sequence?

• At last

• I felt like a pot about to bubble over.

• We poked our heads into small houses.

• and spoke briefly to friends we met on the road

Multiple Choice

When did the breeze lift the fog?

• In the gray fog

• before James pointed at the boat

• after someone whispered, "But I don't see anything."

• once they realized their saw the boat, their new school

Multiple Choice

Which word shows the sequence of events?

• fog

• pointed

• after

• breathed

Reorder

Reorder the following

• James and Tassie start school at the church.

• Police come in and shut the school down because of a new law.

• Reverend John begins to work on a steamboat so it can be their new school.

• James and Tassie help ed Rev. John get the boat ready.

• The boys and girls start school on the steamboat.

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