Story Summaries Set 3

1. Which of the following best summarizes the story?

• A. The seals were swimming in a large group in the Pacific Ocean.
• B. A little seal got separated from the group and ended up waiting on a small boat for the orcas to leave the area.
• C. The orcas were hunting for seals, and they were circling the small boat and coming up for air.

2. Which of the following best summarizes the story?

• A. A boy/girl goes to a skating party with friends but can’t skate.
• B. A boy/girl who can’t skate well goes to a school skating party and ends up improving his/her skating and having a good time.
• C. A boy/girl has friends who can do circles and go fast on the skating rink, but he/she refuses to learn.

3. Which of the following best summarizes the story?

• A. A family works to remodel their home and finds an envelope full of someone’s keepsakes.
• B. The family moved to a new house and the boy/girl helps remodel it.
• C. The boy/girl learns to be more careful about painting while on a ladder.

4. Which of the following best summarizes the story?

• A. The Queen Bee held a ball, and all the insects enjoyed the party.
• B. Some of the insects played music and other insects gave light.
• Butterflies are not nocturnal, but they stayed up to come to the insect ball, along with the other insects.

5. Which of the following best summarizes the story?

• A. The African animals wanted their children to go to school.
• B. Each animal arrived at school and Miss Antelope greeted them.
• C. The animals of the African savanna sent their children to Miss Antelope’s classroom on the first day of school.

6. Which of the following best summarizes the story?

• A. Sugar, the family cat, climbed a tree and wouldn’t come down, so a firefighter rescued her.
• B. Maria got her cat, Sugar, from a shelter.
• C. Sugar was very naughty to have climbed a tree and the family never let her out again.

7. Which of the following best summarizes the story?

• A. The cross-country meet was a very hot day for the crowd and the runners.
• B. Cross country was new to Josiah, but he ran on a hot day and came in third place.
• C. All the runners went to their first cross country meet.

8. Which of the following best summarizes the story?

• A. The Pink Fairy picked up her shoes, and the leprechaun took the gold she gave him and hid it at the end of the rainbow.
• B. The leprechaun was very old at almost 300 years and over the years, he made many shoes for fairies.
• C. Now, fairies like a variety of shoes.