words while reading.
Reading for the plot
1 Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. The plot: I drew a copy of the drawing in a book, in which a boa constrictor was swallowing an animal.
His death left on a wartime mission, never returned, unknown cause
Reading for information
2. What experience made the author write The Little Prince?
He was inspired to create the story by a plane crash in the desert in 1935.
Reading for the plot
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. 5 But they answered: “Frighten? Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?”