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Name ______________________________

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears

Verna Aardema

Pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon

Prediction

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Authors Purpose

inform persuade entertain

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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears

Focus Skills:

To summarize important information in a text

To read and understand a folktale

To compare two folktales

Genre

Folktale- West African Tale: A tale is a story that hasbeen passed down through time.

Summary

King Lion calls a meeting to find out what led to an

accident. The reason why mosquitoes buzz in

peoples ears is revealed.

Reading Strategy

Make and Confirm Predictions

When reading a folktale, readers often dont know

what will happen until the very end of the story. They

must often make a prediction about what mighthappen next in a story. Good readers use story clues

and what they know to make predictions about a

story, then read on to see if their predictions are

correct.

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Page

64 Why does Iguana put sticks in his ears?

Why does Iguana say that Mosquitos story about the

yams is nonsense?

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66

Why doesnt Iguana answer Python? Draw it.

What does

Python do after

Iguana ignores

him? Why?

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Page

68 What happensafter Monkey

hears Crow?

How do

you know

Mother

Owl is

sad?

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How doesMonkey feel

when she

stands before

King Lion?

Draw it.

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What mistake did Python, Rabbit, Crow and Monkey all make?

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What reason does Crow give King Lion for spreading the alarm?

King Lion agreed. Why? Do you agree? Why?

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How does the way Rabbit acts compare to the way Crow acted? What

does that tell you about each character?

Rabbit comes

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Crow comes

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Did it surprise you that King Lion called Python? Why or why not?

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78

Why didnt Iguana hear the summons to attend the council meeting?

Summarize

what has

happened at

the council

meeting.

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If you were King Lion, what would you have said to Iguana when you

heard his story abut Mosquito?

What makes

Mother Owl

hoot for the

sun?

What lesson

do you think

this story

teaches?

Think and Respond1. How do the iguanas actions lead King Lion to call a council meeting?

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2. Why does the mosquito have a guilty conscience?

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3. Do you think the mosquito meant to do harm?

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4. What kind of tale is this? Why do you think it is still being told today?

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Use the graphic organizer to answer the following questions. Highlight

the answers on the organizer.

1. What is a yam?

2. Why does the iguana think that the mosquitos story is

nonsense?

3. Why does the iguana put sticks in his ears?

4. What are the words mek and krik?

5. Who warns the other animals of danger?

6. If the monkey leaps kili wili through the trees, what does

kili wili mean?

7. How does King Lion find out why the sun is still sleeping?

8. Why doesnt Iguana speak to Python?

9. Why did the author repeat some lines in this story?

10. What was the mosquito doing at the end of the story?

11. What does KPAO stand for?

12. What is the same about Coyote Places the Stars and

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears?

13. How does Mother Owl wake the sun?

14. Why do mosquitoes buzz in peoples ears?