Carl's New Kittens - Carl's Corner

Name
Carl’s New Kittens
Carl was just a little boy of four. His family lived on an
enormous farm and they had new kittens to play with every
year in the spring. This year, Carl kept telling his mother
over and over again about the new kittens. He was very
excited about them and said to his mother, “Come and see
the new kittens!” Every morning he went outside to play with
them.
One morning, Carl’s mother could not find him and so
she went to look for him. She looked all over the house and
she looked in the barn, but Carl was not there. Was Carl
playing with the new kittens? She decided to look in the
garden and all over the yard.
She finally saw him behind the chicken coop. He was
sitting in the dirt, playing with the new kittens, a very fluffy
mix of black and white fur. She was very surprised! This was
not an ordinary litter of kittens! They were baby skunks!
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Cherry Carl, 2005
Dolch 4c Story Comprehension

The mother skunk was at the edge of the woods watching
its babies, but it did not seem to be very worried about
them. “Will the mother skunk run over to protect its babies?”
Carl’s mother said to herself. “What should I do?”
She stood very still because she knew that if she was
noisy or if she got too close, the mother skunk would make
an awful smell!
The skunk kittens soon got tired of playing with Carl and
walked over to join their mother in the woods. Carl’s mother
was very glad!
Carl walked over to his mother and asked, “Did you see
my new kittens?”
kittens!”
His mother laughed and said, “Yes, I saw your new
When Carl was growing up, his mother told the story
about the new kittens over and over again!
Can you find the special words in the story? Count the number of times that you see each
special word and write it next to the word below.
very an over your its
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Cherry Carl, 2005
Dolch 4c Story Comprehension

Draw a picture of Carl playing with the new kittens behind the chicken coop.
Fill in the Blanks
Read each sentence below. Circle the missing word and write it in the space.
1. Carl was a little boy on enormous farm.
very vary
2. His mother looked all for him.
3. She said, “I saw new kitten and mother.”
your you
oven over
in an
it its
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Cherry Carl, 2005
Dolch 4c Story Comprehension

1. Was Carl four years old?
2. Was Carl a little girl?
3. Did he live on a farm?
Yes or No?
4. Did Carl like to play with kittens?
5. Were the new kittens brown?
It’s a Match!
Draw a line to connect the naming part of the sentence with the action part of the sentence.
Read them to yourself to make sure that they make sense. The first one is done for you.
Carl
His family
Carl’s mother
She
The dog and the frog
The new kittens
could not find him.
was four years old.
were baby skunks!
yes no
yes no
yes no
yes no
yes no
lived on an enormous farm.
looked all over for him.
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Cherry Carl, 2005
Dolch 4c Story Comprehension

Where did Carl and him family live?
How old was Carl in the story?
What did the new kittens look like?
4
Read a book about skunks and write about them.
What do they look like? What do they like to eat?
Where do they live? How do they protect
themselves?
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Cherry Carl, 2005
Dolch 4c Story Comprehension

Skunks
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Cherry Carl, 2005
Dolch 4c Story Comprehension

Use this space for pre-writing.
skunks
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Cherry Carl, 2005
Dolch 4c Story Comprehension