Greyling

Aim: During reading the story “Greyling” answer the following target Reading comprehension questions.

1. Who is the story about?

➢ The story about a fisherman and his wife.

2. What was the hut covered with?

➢ The hut covered with the finest mosses.

3. What would the wife say to the fisherman each morning?

➢ The wife says to the fisherman eachmorning, “You have your boat and your nets and your lines but I have not baby.

4. What did the fisherman find one sunny day at the beach?

➢ The fisherman one sunny day at the beach, but this day he found a small grey seal stranded on the sandbar, crying for its own.

5. What did the fisherman do with the seal pup?

➢ The fisherman do with the seal up, then hedipped it into the water and wrapped carefully in its folds.

6. What did the fisherman’s wife do with the bundle?

➢ The fisherman’s wife wrapping the bundle and she look and cry.

7. What surprise did they find when they looked at the bundle?

➢ The surprise did they find when they looked at the bundle, instead of a seal lying in the folds, there was a strange childwith great grey eyes and silvery grey hair, smiling in at him.

8. What did they decide to do with selchie?

➢ They decide to raise him and never get close to the sea.

9. What did they call him? Why?

➢ Call him Greyling because for the eyes grey.

10. Was the selchie allowed into the sea? Why?

➢ The selchie allowed into the sea because he transformto the seal.

11. How did the Greyling help his mother in the hearth?

➢ He gathered driftwood for his mother hearth.

12. How did he help his father?

➢ He helps his father with the nets and the boat.

13. Did the Greyling ever go in the sea?

➢ Greyling never go to the sea again.

14. What happened fifteen years from the day Greyling was found?➢ After fifteen years was a giant storm.

15. What was the fisherman’s wife and Greyling forced to do because of the storm?

➢ They were forced to go to the mountain because the storm was very hard.

16. What did they see far from shore?

➢ It looked far off the sinking boat.

17. What was happening to the fisherman?

➢ The fisherman wasdrowning in the sea.

18. What did one old man say to the wife?

➢ The old man say let the boy go.

19. Why did the fisherman’s wife clasp Greyling in her arms?

➢ She don’t want Greyling go to the sea and know the truth.

20. What did Greyling cry out?

➢ I will sate him or die trying.

21. What happened to Greyling as he disappeared beneath the waves?➢ He transforming to the seal.

22. What did the sleek grey seal do?

➢ He saved his father during the storm.

23. Where did the fisherman’s wife and the people search?

➢ The fisherman and wife search in the sea.

24. What did the fisherman’s wife finally agree?

➢ Is the best that he returned to the sea because there is her home.

25.What would happen once a year?

➢ The seal was once a year around the hut to visit her parents.

26. What does Greyling do when he comes home?

➢ And the end when the Greyling come home.

Aim: Using the reading strategy, prediction, answer the following questions in complete sentences.

I.(a) When you first read that the baby seal became a baby boy, what predictiondid you make? Why?

➢ In this moment I think that the baby seal became a baby boy was an imagination of the fisherman. Because this was impossible that seal change a boy. And the which of the fisher wife’s was a have a baby.

(b) Did you revise that prediction at any point? Why or Why not?

➢ My predictions change because in the story the creature for love to a father and the...