The document provides a recipe for making Eskimo cookies. It begins by listing the ingredients needed: powdered sugar, butter, granulated sugar, cocoa powder, water, vanilla extract, and oats. The instructions state that the first steps are to put on an apron, wash hands, and gather the ingredients. The recipe then provides directions for creaming the butter and sugar, mixing in the remaining wet ingredients, stirring in the oats with your hands, forming balls, rolling them in powdered sugar, and storing them in the refrigerator or eating them. The recipe yields about 36 cookies.

1. Pre - reading stage
1. What do you think the article is about according to the following pictures…
Apron Wooden spoon
Butter Sugar
Oats Little balls of flour
2. Now… write your predictions about the reading.

2. For instance, based on the pictures above, I think the story is about…
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3. Confirm your predictions reading the following article.
How to make cookies
By: Deborah Lynn
This is a great recipe. It is fun and easy.
I made these cookies when I was a little
girl and the cookies taste great. They
are called Eskimo Cookies because you
don’t cook them. Instead, you keep
them in the refrigerator so they will be
cold when you eat them.
The first thing you need to do is put on an apron and wash your hands. Second,
gather up all the things that you will need. Get a mixing bowl, a wooden spoon,
a plate for the powdered sugar, and a tray to put the cookies on. Third, gather
the ingredients you will need:
Powdered sugar, 1 ½ sticks of butter, ¾ cup of sugar, 3 tablespoons of cocoa, 1
tablespoon of water, ½ teaspoon of vanilla and 2 cups of Quick Quaker Oats.
Next, pour some powdered sugar into the plate so it will be ready to use later.
Now here is where the fun begins! Put the butter into the mixing bowl and add
the sugar, then mix it with the wooden spoon. After it is mixed, add the cocoa,
water and vanilla and mix that again. Finally, you will add the oats. At this
point it is easier to just stick your hands in the bowl and squeeze the gooey
mixture through your fingers. It’s more fun too!

3. When it is mixed well, form the mixture into little balls. It should make about 36
balls. Roll them in the powdered sugar and then set them on the tray. You can
eat them now or you can store them in the refrigerator. They will be good for
probably two weeks, but I doubt they will last that long. I dare you to eat just
one!
After reading stage
PRACTICE READING TEST ANSWER SECTION
This is your Practice Reading Test Answer Section. The questions in this
section are based on the stories in your practice Reading Section (above).
You may go back to the Reading Section to help you answer the questions.
Now answer Numbers 1 through 5. Base your answers on the story "How to
make cookies "
1. Why do we call these cookies Eskimo cookies?
A. Because Eskimos eat these cookies.
B. Because these cookies were invented by Eskimos.
C. Because these cookies are kept in the refrigerator.
D. Because the name sounded like a good name.
2. What is the first step in making these cookies?
A. Gathering all the ingredients.
B. Putting on an apron and washing your hands.
C. Mixing up all the ingredients.
D. Making little balls.

4. 3. How much cocoa do we need?
A. We need two cups.
B. We need ½ teaspoon.
C. We need ¾ cup.
D. We need 3 tablespoons.
4. About how many balls can you make with this recipe?
A. You can make 36 balls.
B. You can make 12 balls.
C. You can make six balls.
D. You can make as many as you want to make.
5. What do you do with the balls just before you eat them?
A. Eat them.
B. Refrigerate them.
C. Roll them in powdered sugar.
D. Mix them up.