Story Review: Listening Detective

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will use ALL your listening skills — sequence, problem/solution, feelings, predicting, main idea, cause/effect, inference, and facts — to understand one final story.

🌟 Let's Start

You are now a Listening Detective! A detective finds clues and solves mysteries. Today you will use all your skills to understand a story completely.

📚 The Story: The School Garden

The students at Bright Future Primary School in Ibadan wanted to grow a garden, but there was no money to buy seeds. This was the problem.

First, Funke had an idea. "Let us ask our families for seeds from their kitchens!" The children collected tomato seeds, pepper seeds, and watermelon seeds from home.

Next, Mr. Abiola, the science teacher, showed them how to prepare the soil. They dug, raked, and planted the seeds in neat rows. Because they watered the seeds every day, small green shoots appeared after two weeks.

Then, a big rainstorm came and washed away some of the plants. The children felt sad and disappointed. But Funke said, "Let us not give up. We can plant again!"

They replanted and built a small fence to protect the garden. Finally, after two months, the garden was full of tomatoes, peppers, and even a watermelon! The children felt proud and happy.

The main idea of this story is that hard work and not giving up can help you achieve great things.

🎮 Let's Practice

1. What was the problem and the solution?
2. Cause and effect: Why did the plants grow?
3. What can you infer about Funke's personality?

Click to see answers

1. Problem: No money for seeds. Solution: They collected seeds from home.
2. The plants grew because the children watered them every day.
3. You can infer that Funke is a leader — she comes up with ideas and encourages others not to give up.

💡 Remember

You are a Listening Detective! You can find the sequence, problem, solution, feelings, causes, effects, main idea, and inferences in any story. Amazing work!