Miracle Hands Informational Text

The author's purpose is...

• to persuade the reader to become a surgeon like Chung.

• to inspire the reader that they can also overcome obstacles.

• to explain the events that happened in Chung's early life and the impact they had on him

• to tell a fictional story about a boy who lost his hands

What is the BEST summary of the text?

• Wossik Chung lost his hands and learned to overcome that challenge and is now a surgeon like his dad.

• Woosik Chung's hands were cut off when he was 3 and his father was able to successfully reattach them. Chung now lives in the United States and wants to study medicine.

• Woosik Chung lost his hands in an accident at the age of three, but his father, a surgeon, was able to reattach the limbs. Chung used tae kwon do as therapy and was able to use his hand eventually. He now wants to become a surgeon to help others.

• When Woosik Chung lost his hands, he could not use them for a long time and had to do physical therapy to eventually use them agian.

What is the TEXT STRUCTURE of the article?

• It's describing Woosik Chung

• It's giving details in chronological order

• It's comparing and contrasting

• It's giving a cause and effect

How did Chung loose his hands?

• He was playing hide and seek and they got cut off by a tractor blade

• He fell on a sharp object and it cut off his hands

• He had a nine hour operation to remove them

• He fell out of his apartment window and lost his hands

How did his grandfather help him regain the use of his hands?

• By teaching him patience

• By scolding him when he couldn't use them

• By hoping and praying he would use them.

• By practicing martial arts for several hours a day

Why did Chung's father have to reattach his hands instead of another doctor?

• The hospitals were too crowded and the family had to hurry to operate.

• The family could not get to a hospital in time and they had to operate at home.

• It was a holiday, and many doctors were not available, so Chung's father performed the surgery.