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The Secret at the Bottom of the Pot

Read a story about a boy who helps his grandmother cook rice with a golden crust, then ask and answer questions using the text.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.3.1

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1 Common Core standard
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10 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students answer who, what, where, when and why questions about a story using details from the text.
Students decide whether a story answers a question and find the sentence that answers it.
Students write their own question about a story and answer it with a detail from the text.

How to use

Read the story together, then have students go back to the text to find each answer before they write it. Share the students' own Why questions at the end.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.3.1

Ask and answer questions to show understanding of a story, using the text itself as the basis for the answers.

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The Secret at the Bottom of the Pot

Ask and answer questions using details from a story.

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The Secret at the Bottom of the Pot

1Darius pushed a chair up to the kitchen counter. His cousins were coming for dinner, and Grandma Shirin had asked him to help make the rice. "Our family's rice has a secret," she said with a wink. "You will see it at dinner."

2First, Darius rinsed the rice in a bowl of cool water. He swished it with his hands, poured out the cloudy water, and did it again until the water stayed clear. Then Grandma boiled the rice for a few minutes and drained it. She melted butter in the bottom of a heavy pot and spooned the rice on top in a tall hill. She covered the pot with a lid wrapped in a clean towel. "Now we wait," she said, and turned the heat down low.

3Darius waited. He set the table. He folded the napkins. After a long time, a toasty smell drifted out of the kitchen. Darius sniffed and frowned. "Grandma, I think the rice is burning!" he cried. "Should we turn off the stove?"

4Grandma Shirin did not rush to the stove. She only smiled. "Be patient a little longer," she said. "That smell means the secret is almost ready."

5When everyone sat down, Grandma put a big round plate over the pot. Then she flipped the pot upside down and lifted it away. The rice stood on the plate like a cake. The crust from the bottom of the pot was now on top, and it was golden and crunchy. Darius's cousins cheered. Everyone wanted a piece.

6Grandma broke off the first piece and handed it to Darius. It crackled when he bit it. "This is the secret?" he asked. Grandma nodded. "The best part of the rice is the part that waits the longest."

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