Amazon Fever By Kathleen Zoefeld

 

Thinking Questions:

1. What was the theme or subject of the book? Adventure
2. What country did the book take place in? What continent is that on? Brazil in South America
3. What is the take home message of the story? If there is something that you don't like you can try it.
4. What challenge did the character face, and how did they overcome it? He didn't like butterflies and he tried it.
5. What prior knowledge or experiences did you have to this story? How did that help you understand the story better? My mom and I collect butterflies.
6. Why is Uncle Roy going to the Brazil? To collect butterflies.
7. Why does Jeff want to go? To see a jaguar.

Analytical Questions

Question choices:

1. What was the author's purpose in writing this book? How do you know?
2. How are the characters presented?
3. Are the characters good or bad? How do you know? How did the author show the character's were good or bad?
4. What did the character look like or what did they say that influenced me?
5. What are the characters names and how does that describe their role?
6. What imagery was in the story?
7. What is the take home message of the story?
8. How do the characters themselves that help us understand other characters? How does the foil character that makes other characters pop out?(The donkey is a foil for Shrek)
9. What new vocabulary word did you learn from this book that you did not currently know?
10. What challenge did the character face, and how did they overcome it?
11. What prior knowledge or experiences did you have to this story? How did that help you understand the story better?
12. Did you have any predictions about what was going to happen in the story as you were reading?
13. Was there a part of the story that did not make sense? Why?

The Butterfly Alphabet Book

Today I read the Butterfly Alphabet Book.


 1. What was this book about? Butterflies in the alphabet.


 2. What was enjoyable about reading this book? I enjoyed the colors.



 3. What was the most surprising thing you learned? Transparent wings are see through.



 4.What is you favorite butterfly and why? It was the black butterfly as big as your hand.