Making Meaning Grade 3 - PSD401



Name _______________________________________________________ Date _______

Making Meaning Grade 3

Unit 2

Visualizing

Directions: Read the story and answer the questions.

Sock Garden Secret

by April Pulley Sayre

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1 Dad showed us how to make our socks grow. Won’t Mom be surprised!

2 One day last fall, Dad said, “Go get your oldest, rattiest wool socks!”

3 My sister, my brother, and I thought this sounded weird. But it was

better than sitting around until Mom got back from the store.

4 So we searched. Then we all met outside. “What are we doing?”

I asked.

5 “We’re making a sock garden, of course!” Dad said with a smile.

6 We carried our socks and hiked down the road. I wondered where we

were going. But then we stopped at an old field. Dad looked out at the

dead, gray weeds. “Remember how this field was full of flowers this

summer?” asked Dad. We all nodded. “Good,” said Dad. Then he said,

“Pull your socks over your shoes and follow me.”

7 So we did, feeling silly.

8 Dad walked. We walked.

9 Then my sister Sara hopped. Dad hopped too.

10 I liked that. So I stomped. We all stomped and giggled. Sara

yelled, “Yahoo!”

11 Dad pulled a pod off a plant. It snapped just like a bean.

12 Dad touched a pod of another. It exploded with a noise—tsssk!—and

flung out seeds. Soon we were all touching popping plants.

13 We found a plant with tiny cups. We tilted them. Out poured seeds.

Ssssssssssss. The seeds fell with a hiss, like cereal pouring from a box.

14 Then we got really wild. Dad taught us a kooky dance: the

Woodchuck Waddle. He said his aunt had taught it to him as a kid.

15 I made up another: the Squirrel Skip. Sara invented the Deer Dance.

David twirled around until he was so dizzy, he fell over. We danced and

laughed some more.

16 By this time, we were sagging in our socks. “All done!” announced Dad.

17 “All done?” I wondered out loud. Dancing is never all done. Then I

realized Dad was looking at our socks, but I was still clueless.

18 On the way out of the field, we played follow-the-leader. I was in

charge. First, I pulled the white fluff from some milkweed pods.

“Whoosh!” I yelled as I let it go free.

19 “Whoosh!” “Whoosh!” “Whoosh!” yelled the others as they flung the

seeds up in the air. We watched the seeds, on downy parachutes, float

and fly in the wind. “Where will they go?” asked Sara.

20 “Here, there, and everywhere,” said Dad.

21 We took off our socks and carried them all the way home. Back at the

house, Dad plopped down on the ground in the backyard. Then he held

up his socks for us to see. They were covered with dirt and plant bits.

But there was more . . . there were prickly seeds: little ones and big ones

in all kinds of shapes.

22 Finally, I understood. While we’d been playing with seeds, our socks

had been collecting them.

23 That afternoon, we buried our seedy socks in the yard. “Let’s make it

a secret!” said Sara. We didn’t say a word to Mom.

24 But when the next summer came, we had flowers growing in funny,

sock-shaped clumps. The flowers were pretty. Mom brought in jars full.

She put some of the flowers in her hair.

25 “Where did they come from?” she asked Dad.

26 We all stayed quiet. “The rain or wind must have brought them,” said

Dad, trying not to grin.

27 David and Sara hid their faces behind pillows. But I couldn’t keep

quiet. I giggled. Soon we were all laughing... and our sock garden secret

was out for good!

Name _______________________________________________________ Date _______

1. What was one picture you saw in your mind as you read the story Sock Garden Secret? Draw the picture in the box below. Include three details from the story.

2. What words did you read in the passage that helped you create your mental picture?

3. How did your mental picture of the socks change from the beginning of the story to the end? Use information from the story to support your answer.

4. Which sentence below best describes the garden at the end of the story?

a. The flowers grew in the old field.

b. The grass grew in sock-shaped clumps.

c. The flowers grew in sock-shaped clumps.

Making Meaning Grade 3

Unit 2

Visualizing Rubric

Sock Garden Secret, 2005 Reading Released Item

|1. What was one picture you saw in your mind as you read the story Sock Garden Secret? Draw the picture in the box below. Include |

|three details from the story. |

|(GLE 2.1.6) |

|0 points |Picture does not relate to story or did not draw a picture |

|1 point |Picture has one or two details correct and may include an |

| |incorrect detail. |

|2 points |Picture has three or more correct details |

|2. What words did you read in the passage that helped you create your mental picture? |

|(GLE 2.1.6) |

|0 points |Answer does not include details from the story. |

|1 point |Answer has words found in the story, but does not completely |

| |describe their picture. |

|2 points |Answer completely describes their picture using words from the |

| |story. |

|3. How did your mental picture of the socks change from the beginning of the story to the end? Use information from the story to |

|support your answer. |

|(GLE 2.3.1, 2.1.6) |

|0 points |No answer or states that the socks did not change. |

|1 point |Answer describes the socks at the beginning or the end OR one |

| |description is incorrect |

|2 points |Answer completely describes the change in the socks including |

| |information from the beginning and the end. |

|4. Which sentence below best describes the garden at the end of the story? |

|(GLE 2.1.6) |

|1 points |Answer is c. |

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