Name:
Date:
What do you know about this topic?
Where and how did you get this information?
Name:
Date:
Clues
•The story is going
to be about
elephants.
•Suku, the boy,
freed the elephant
with his knife
Problems
•The boy and
elephant are in
danger from a lion.
•An elephant is
trapped by a
snare.
•The boy and
elephant could be
lost
Wondering
•What does
s
“Toto” mean?
•Why are the
elephants
colored black?
•Why does the
boy carry a
knife?
•How and why
did the
elephant get
stuck?
Causes (Reasons)
Effects (What Happens)
(Must be an action)
Name:
Date:
(Story)
What happened in the story?
Name:
Date:
Toto
Name:
Date:
Setting
•In the present
•Near a village
in Africa
•The village
was near a
game reserve
Characters
•Suku
•A young,
timid boy
•Toto
•A baby
elephant
Problems
•Suku was too
timid to go to
the grasslands
•Toto was
caught in a
snare
•The two of
them
encountered
(ran into) a lion
Solutions
“Toto”
Directions: Answer each question in a complete sentence. Write the page
number down where you found your answer!!!
1. How are Toto and Suku the same?
2. What did Suku promise his mom?
3. Why doesn’t Suku go with the boys in the morning to the grassland?
4. What makes Toto wander off during the night?
5. What two things did Suku do for Toto?
6. Why didn’t Suku notice that he was in the grasslands?
7. After Toto trumpets a warning, what happens?
8. Why isn’t Suku timid anymore?
9. What did the warden say that Suku would be good at?
10.Who put out the trap that Toto got caught on?
11.What do these words mean?: timid, envious, mock, snare, cunning
12. In a 4 sentence paragraph– What do you think Suku learned about
taking risks and their consequences during his adventure?
13.In a 4 sentence paragraph– What risk have you taken to help someone?
Was the risk worth taking?
Name:
Date:
What adjectives (describing
words) describe the characters,
setting, problems, and solutions
in your story?
•Find adjectives from the story
for the “text” bubbles
•Use what you know about the
story to do the “inference”
bubbles
What have you learned from what you’ve read?
How are you going to remember what you’ve learned? Are you
going to draw a sketch, write a song, or write a journal about
how you feel about what you’ve learned?
Name:
Date:
Name:
Date: