- Mandy: Hi, Norby. - Norbert: Hi, Mandy.
[electronic music]
- What are you doing?
- Norbert: What does it look like?
- It looks like you're eating all the cookies.
- You wanna help me with my homework?
- Sure.
What do I have to do?
- Just ask me these questions at the end of the kids' page.
- Okay, number one.
Where is the Statue of Liberty located?
- Easy.
That's a right there question.
- What's that?
- A right there question.
It's what we're studying in reading class right now.
See, there are three different types of questions.
Some have answers that are right there on the page,
and some have answers you've got to search around a bit for.
And some have answers you've got to figure out on your own.
You asked a right there question.
"The Statue of Liberty is in New York City
and is a beacon of freedom for all."
- What's a beacon?
- Have to look it up.
- Hey, the ring!
- My children, you must hurry to the land of Mojuste.
Thorzuul is once again
unleashing his despicable tyranny.
He's being mean and nasty.
Hurry, my children!
- Let's go!
- What about your homework? - I can do it when I get back.
Come on!
- Wait up!
[eerie music]
- In unison: Thunder and lightning,
trumpets and drums.
Readers rejoice!
A Storylord comes.
[Bike-O-Tron whirrs]
[shimmer]
- Who... - Are you?
- I'm Norbert Niesenden.
- And I'm Mandy Niesenden.
- We're apprentice Stoylords, at your service.
- How sweet.
I'm Minnie Gwyn, but you can call me Min.
- And I'm Winifred Gwyn, but you can call me Win.
- We're Min and Win Gwyn.
- The Gwyn twins.
- Well, how can we help you?
- I don't need any help. - Neither do I.
- You don't?
- Way to go, Norby.
- But you're in the magic picture.
- Maybe they have a sister?
- Yes, we do.
Her name is Lynn. - But she's not in.
- I don't understand it.
Well, I guess we better be off.
Sorry to have bothered--
- Uh, before you go, could I speak to you in private?
- Of course.
- I was gonna ask you the same thing.
- I don't want my sister to know about this.
It would upset her too much.
- "Dear Min, I have a red summer cape
"and a blue winter cape.
"Which one should I wear?
Signed, Thorzuul."
- There's no way to answer this question.
But if I don't, Thorzuul will-- - I know.
Turn you to stone.
Up to his old tricks as usual.
- "Dear Win, it snowed last night.
"What color cape should I wear outside?
Signed, Thorzuul."
If my sister found out about this, she'd be very upset.
But how can I answer this question?
- I don't really think you have to worry.
- You don't?
- No, we can probably take care of this.
Norby!
Um, didn't you say the other day that you had a reading class
on how to answer questions? - Uh-huh.
Mrs. Framish said there are three different ways
to find answers to questions on what you're reading.
- Mrs. Framish: Today, we're going to learn
about ways to find answers to questions.
First, I'd like you all to read what's on the board.
To yourselves; don't read out loud.
Is everyone finished?
Good.
Now, who can tell me what present
Meagan got for Christmas?
Jason.
- Jason: She got new mittens.
- Is that what everyone thinks?
Jason, can you read the part that proves you're right?
- Meagan got new mittens for Christmas.
- Good for you, Jason.
You found a sentence that tells us
exactly what Megan got for Christmas.
Many times, we can find the answers to questions
right in one sentence.
We have a special name for those kinds of questions.
We call them "right there" questions.
And if you forget the answer to a right there question,
you don't have to worry.
You just reread the sentence
and you'll find the answer right there on the page.
Now, I have another question for you.
What did Meagan's mittens feel like inside?
Norbert?
- They felt furry.
- Can you tell us how you got that answer?
I don't see a sentence up there
that says Meagan's mittens felt furry inside.
- Well, I put two sentences together.
The one that says she got the mittens,
and that one says they had fur inside,
so that's how they must have felt.
- You're a good reader, Norbert.
You didn't find the answer to my question in one sentence.
So, you put the ideas from two sentences together
and thought about it.
We call those questions "think and search" questions.
You have to think about what you read
and search carefully for ideas to use
in making up your answer.
Now, here's a hard one.
What do you think the weather is like
when Meagan wears her mittens to school?
Angie.
- Wet and rainy?
- Jason? - I think it's cold outside.
Maybe wintertime.
- How did you get that answer, Jason?
- Because it says the mittens have fur, so they must be warm.
If you wear them in the rain, your hands would get too hot.
I've done that before.
But if it was cold out, then you'd wear mittens like that.
- Very good, Jason.
You didn't find the answer to my question
in any of the sentences.
So, you thought about what you read and about what you know
and you put them together to get your answer.
We call those kinds of questions "on your own" questions.
Now, let's look at these three kinds of questions together.
Who can tell me how do you find an answer
to a right there question?
Norbert?
- You find a sentence that has the answer in it.
- Good.
How about a think and search question?
Angie?
- The answer isn't in one sentence,
so you put different ideas from different sentences together.
- Very good.
And what about an on your own question?
Jason?
- The answer isn't in any sentence,
so you have to think about what you read
and what you already know and try to get an answer.
- Very good, all of you.
Before you try to answer any question,
think about what type of question it is.
Thinking about what type of question you have to answer
will help you figure out the answer better.
Now, let's get out our reading books, turn to page 24...
- Will help you figure out how to answer that question.
- Well, here's my question. - You too?
Here's mine.
- Min: Look, he asked us the same question.
What color cape should I wear?
- Now all we have to do is figure out
what type of question it is.
- Hmm.
It's not a right there question
because when you read each sentence,
you sure don't find an answer.
- Maybe it's a think and search question.
- Min: Here, he says he wears a red cape in summer
and a blue one in winter.
- Win: And here, it says it snowed last night.
- If it snowed, it must be winter.
- In unison: The blue cape!
- I have just the thing.
[motorcycle rumbles] - Hurry,
I think You-Know-Who just arrived.
[electronic music]
- Milkbreath: Announcing His Royal Badness,
the one and only, the Master of Disaster,
the Prince of Panic,
the hardest-working Storylord in Mojuste!
- Thorzuul: Milkbreath!
- Sorry, boss.
Thorzuul!
- Aha!
Well?
- You're in luck.
We had one in just your size.
Extra large!
- And would you like matching earmuffs and mittens
for those cold, wintery days?
[playful music]
- You answered my question!
It's impossible!
- Not when you stop and think
about what type of question it is first.
- You know, a right there question,
a think and search question, and an on your own question.
Yours was a think and search question.
- You two, again!
- I think we'd better be going.
- Don't forget to show him the matching scarf.
- In unison: Home. [shimmer]
- [groans in frustration]
- I think we have color-coordinated dickies too.
- Milkbreath, get me out of here!
- By any chance, would you have one of those outfits
with purple polka dots?
- Milkbreath!
[electronic music]