Question 1: What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Maya learns to cook with her grandmother during the summer.
B. Maya discovers a hidden garden and creates something meaningful from it.
C. Maya spends the summer reading and playing inside.
D. Maya decides she wants to move away from her grandmother’s house.

📝 Comment your answer and explain why you chose it!

Question 2: Why did Maya go into the garden for the first time?

A. Her grandmother asked her to clean it.
B. She saw her friends going there.
C. She was curious about a path she saw in the backyard.
D. She was trying to catch a rabbit.

📝 Tell us your answer and what clues helped you decide!

Question 3: What does the garden symbolize in this story?

A. A place to play with animals.
B. A boring chore that Maya avoids.
C. A way for Maya to feel lonely.
D. Growth, friendship, and new beginnings.

📝 Make a video explaining what the garden meant to Maya.

1. Highlighting Tool

Prompt: If you were highlighting key events in Maya’s journey, which sentences would you highlight?
Why are those parts important to the story?

📝 Write the sentences you would highlight and explain your reason.

2. Digital Notepad Tool

Prompt: Use your digital notepad to list two character traits of Maya.
Then explain why you chose those traits based on what she says or does.

📝 Example: Maya is ________ because she ________.

3. Text-to-Speech Tool

Prompt: Imagine the text-to-speech tool stopped working while you were reading this passage.
What would you do to fix it? Who would you ask for help?

📝 Write the steps you would take or explain them in a voice note.

Now that you’ve finished your own practice, take a moment to read a classmate’s response on the Padlet board. Choose one that you like, agree with, or learned something from. Then:

✏️ Your Job:

1. Write a kind comment on their post. You can say:

   • “I liked how you explained…”

   • “That was a smart answer because…”

   • “You helped me understand…”

2. OR click the ❤️ or 👍 to react to their answer if your teacher says it's okay!

3. Then answer this prompt in a new post of your own:

🗨️ Peer Reflection Prompt:

What did you learn from someone else’s post today?
How did their answer help you think differently or understand something better?