G1U6W3 - Rain School

Read each item below carefully and choose the correct answer.
A country is a land where ________.

• only animals live
• a group of people live
• no people or animals live

When people gather, they _______.

• come together in one place
• go in different directions
• stay in one place

Read the following questions carefully.  You may look back at the selection to help find the answer to each question.
Where does this story take place?

• in America
• in the city of Chad
• in the country of Chad

What is the first lesson on the first day of school?

• to learn to read
• to build a school
• to learn the letter A

What do Thomas and the other children do AFTER the walls and the desks are built?

• make a roof
• make mud bricks
• dry mud bricks in the sun

What happens to the school when the big rains come?

• most of it disappears
• only the walls start to slump
• the outside gets wet, but the inside stays dry

If the big rains come every year, the students will _________.

• have no school to go to
• have to rebuild their school
• have to watch the grown-ups build their school