APIEReading: All About Chopsticks
In the kitchen and at the table
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How to use this lesson
• Focus on reading fluency and keep to an 8-minute limit for this lesson.
• Check answers together using the answer keys and text evidence below.
• Read the short text about chopsticks first from start to end.
• Then answer the 8 questions and look back at the text for clues.
Amazing Chopsticks
People in China started using chopsticks about 3,000 years ago. Today, people use bamboo chopsticks most often, but they are also made of wood or plastic. To eat with them, you keep one chopstick still and move the other one to pick up food. A special museum in Shanghai has more than 1,200 pairs of chopsticks.
Words to know
a tall plant with hard, light wood.
not moving at all.
to take something with your hand or a tool.
two things that match and work together.
a place where people go to look at old or special items.
Questions (From Easy to Hard)
1. People in China started using chopsticks only last year.
2. Bamboo is the material people use most often for chopsticks.
3. When you eat, you move both chopsticks at the same time.
4. How long ago did people in China begin using chopsticks?
5. Besides bamboo and wood, what can chopsticks be made of?
6. Where is the museum that has more than 1,200 pairs of chopsticks?
7. Complete the sentence about using chopsticks:
8. Complete the sentence about the museum collection:
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