A SECRET ACTIVITY FOR 5TH GRADERS

ELIZABETH, A BABY WHO READS.

This activity will give you, 5th graders, an extra point in the 1st period.

1. Copy the instructions and questionnaire to a WORD file.
2. Print it.
3. Do the activity.
4. Give it to me by September 4th or before.

(You have more than a week to do it)

INSTRUCTIONS: Watch the video at http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=400a8dd5-902a-4d71-882c-7da7b8b7cc1f

Then you answer the following questions.


1. What word does the first presenter use to say ‘baby’?

2. What was the first word Elizabeth read?

3. How old was she then?

4. How old is she now?

5. What are her parents’ names?

6. What’s their occupation?

7. The reporter sat down with Elizabeth with a Newsweek magazine and asked her
to read some words, what words did she read?

8. What does Elizabeth’s mother think that is helping the baby to read?

9. Once they are in the studio, with a hostess, Elizabeth looks restless.
What is she holding?

10. What is she doing during the interview?

11. What are some of the words or phrases the hostess shows Elizabeth?

12. Elizabeth gets more impatient so the hostess writes a new word,
what is that word?

13. What kind of handwriting is the hostess using, script or cursive?


14. One conclusion of the hostess makes is that if the parents ever have
behavioral issues they can only (what?)………. so that the baby calms down.

15. Did Elizabeth’s parents teach her to read?