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    Why Frogs Cry in The Rainby Kris LeeLong Ago in A Small Pond, Franky, The GR

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    Franky was a disobedient frog who never listened to his mother's requests. One day, his mother became sick and asked Franky to bury her body by the riverbank, knowing he would do the opposite. After his mother passed away, Franky regretted his disobedience. When it rained heavily, the river flooded and washed away his mother's grave by the riverbank. Franky sat crying in the rain, and that is why frogs croak when it rains to this day.

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    Franky was a disobedient frog who never listened to his mother's requests. One day, his mother became sick and asked Franky to bury her body by the riverbank, knowing he would do the opposite. After his mother passed away, Franky regretted his disobedience. When it rained heavily, the river flooded and washed away his mother's grave by the riverbank. Franky sat crying in the rain, and that is why frogs croak when it rains to this day.

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    Franky was a disobedient frog who never listened to his mother's requests. One day, his mother became sick and asked Franky to bury her body by the riverbank, knowing he would do the opposite. After his mother passed away, Franky regretted his disobedience. When it rained heavily, the river flooded and washed away his mother's grave by the riverbank. Franky sat crying in the rain, and that is why frogs croak when it rains to this day.

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    Why Frogs Cry in the Rain

    by Kris Lee

    Long ago in a small pond, Franky, the green frog lived with his mother. He was a happy little frog and his
    mother loved him very much. But he was a little green rebel who never obeyed her.
    One morning his mother said, "Please go catch some flies for dinner tonight." Instead, he left home to
    play in the river with Todd, the turtle.
    "Honey, will you please go to the market for me?" his mother asked. "I need some lily pad flour to make
    biscuits."
    "No!" he cried, disrespectfully. Instead, he went out to the riverbank, rolled in the wet mud and covered
    his small green body with sticky black mud.
    On a hot June day, while babysitting the frog family's new tadpoles, he took the little ones out to the
    riverbank to play, even though his mother had asked him to stay with them in the pond while she was
    away.
    And so it went, time and again - Franky never followed his mother's requests. Of course, Franky's
    mother became very worried about his behavior. But no matter how hard she tried to teach him to be
    well behaved, it was to no avail.
    As the years went by, Franky grew into a handsome, strong, young bullfrog, while his mother was
    becoming older and weaker. Sadly, his disobedient attitude was still the same.
    Eventually, his mother became very sick and called him to her side to make one last request. "Please
    bury my body by the riverbank when I die," she pleaded. She deliberately asked him to do so because
    she was certain that he would refuse to follow her instruction and do the opposite. It was her hope to
    be buried on the sunny side on the mountain plateau.
    Franky was very sad when his mother finally passed away. He deeply regretted that he never obeyed her
    and had not listened to her advice while she was alive.
    So, for once, he decided to grant her wish - he buried her by the riverbank! When it rained, he worried
    constantly that the water would rise and the river would overflow its bank.
    Alas! One summer day during monsoon season, heavy rainfall lasted for several days and washed his
    mother's grave away. Poor Franky sat in the pouring rain by the riverbank, and cried and cried.
    And that's why, to this day, frogs croak when it rains.

    Inference in Reading
    Inference in reading is the ability to understand the meaning of a passage of text without all the
    information being spelled out. From context clues within a passage, the author gives information about
    plot, characters, setting, time period and other elements of story by the things he or she infers. Word
    choice and word order give clues about the story as it unfolds to the reader. Readers take the clues they
    are given and draw conclusions based on their own worldview and personal experiences.

    Cloze Technique
    The cloze technique for teaching inferences is based on the psychological theory of closure. According to
    the-online professional learning community. Thinkfinity, the cloze, theory supports the idea that a
    person attempts to complete any pattern that is not complete. Activities using the cloze theory can
    teach students to infer the meaning behind text by recognizing and completing patterns within the
    reading. In one such activity, students choose a passage of about 250 words in a book of an appropriate
    reading level.

    General Sense
    The concept of general sense helps students infer the meaning of words or passages of text based on
    context clues. According to Cuesta College, general sense activities help students understand implied
    word meanings even though the words themselves may be new or unfamiliar. One way to teach this is
    to give students a sentence with a new vocabulary word that then lists the meaning of the word within
    the remaining text.

    Examples
    Using examples that mean the same as the word a student is trying to understand is a way to infer
    meaning. According to literary coach, Catherine M. Wishart, inference helps students use their own
    background knowledge to find out what they do not know. Using examples from personal experiences in
    the following sentence helps students infer the meaning of the word "gregarious. Ex: Those who enjoy
    belonging to clubs, going to parties and frequently inviting friends to their homes for dinner are
    gregarious. Because students associate certain personality traits in those who enjoy social gatherings
    and having others in their homes, they can infer that gregarious is a word used to describe this type of
    person.

    Opposites and Contrasts

    Opposites and contrasts help students take information they already know to infer meaning to other
    words. According to Cuestra University, when the meaning of a word is not implied by context or a
    general sense, it can be inferred by using a word that is opposite or in stark contrast to the meaning of
    the word in question. For example, if one person is "fearless" and the other is "timorous" in a sentence,
    it can be inferred that "timorous" means "frightened, afraid or timid" since the sentence is attempting to
    show the difference between the two.

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