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• Three different variations of the same article
• Option 1 includes blank space for students to take notes and guided reading
questions to answer.
• Option 2 includes boxes for “chunking” text into main ideas and guided reading
questions to answer.
• Option 3 includes the questions along the margin to help guide readers as they go
through the article.
*** Please note – all 3 options include the guided reading questions. It is your
decision as to how your students answer those questions.
• Open-ended response questions
• STAAR-aligned multiple choice questions
• Two different summary options
• Answer keys for all questions
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Monday – Students read the article and take notes on their own (or using whatever close
reading strategies have been taught).
Tuesday – Students reread the article, answering the guided questions in the margin.
Wednesday – Students answer the open-ended comprehension questions.
Thursday – Students answer the multiple-choice questions.
Friday – Students complete a written summary of the article.
Again, this is merely one way of using this resource throughout the week. If your students
need more guidance, you can always start off by modeling what you want from them each
day and use the gradual release method to let them take more ownership.
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Option 1:
Article with space for notes
This option includes the article with open

space for children’s thinking and close-
reading strategies. It is followed by guided
questions they can answer as they read or
after.
Name: Date:
Did Amelia Earhart Survive Plane Crash? Newly Discovered Number the paragraphs
Photo Offers Clues and read the article
carefully, taking notes
in the margin about
what you have read.
It has been 80 years since Amelia Earhart vanished while trying to become the
first female pilot to fly around the world, and her 1937 disappearance has
become one of the great mysteries of our time.
Now the makers of a new investigative special from the History Channel
believe they have "the smoking gun" that answers the question of Earhart's
disappearance aboard her Lockheed Electra once and for all: an old, cracked
photograph found in the National Archives, showing a group of people on a
dock in the Marshall Islands. Among the figures: two people who just might
be Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan.
The show's experts say the short-haired person at the back is Earhart, and the
man on the left with the receding hairline is Noonan. But the photo was taken
from a distance, the man's face is in shadow and the person purported to be
Earhart is turned away from the camera.
A former U.S. Treasury agent named Les Kinney found the photo in a box of
papers from the Office of Naval Intelligence while scouring for evidence
regarding Earhart's disappearance that might have been overlooked. The
undated photo was in a box marked "declassified." Its caption reads "PL-
Marshall Islands, Jaluit Atoll, Jaluit Island. Jaluit Harbor. ONI #14381.”
"Kinney argues the photo must have been taken before 1943, as U.S. air
forces conducted more than 30 bombing runs on Jaluit in 1943-44,"
according to a post on History.com. "He believes the plane on the barge is the
Electra, and that two of the people on the dock are Earhart and Noonan. ...
Kent Gibson, another forensic analyst who specializes in facial recognition,
said it was 'very likely' the individuals in it are Earhart and Noonan. Both
analysts identified the ship in the photo as the Japanese military vessel Koshu
Maru, which is thought to be the ship that took Earhart and Noonan away
after their crash landing.”
The experts interviewed for the special believe this photo lends powerful
credence to the theory that when Earhart couldn't find Howland Island — her
next refueling station — she turned back westward and landed on Mili Atoll.
They think Earhart and Noonan were then rescued and taken to Jaluit Island,
where there was a deepwater port.
Some experts believe this
photo shows famed
aviator Amelia Earhart
and her navigator, Fred
Noonan.
U.S. National Archives,
courtesy Les Kinney
An Earhart researcher named Richard Spink has taken many trips to the
Marshall Islands and believes he has found parts of what was Earhart's plane
on Mili Atoll. If indeed it's Earhart and Noonan in the photo, then they must
have crash-landed in the Marshall Islands — and lived.
Earhart and Noonan may then have been taken to a Japanese prison on the
island of Saipan, according to the special. But if Earhart and Noonan are
bound for prison, why do they look so serene in the photograph?
"They obviously believe that they've been rescued," Gary Tarpinian, the
show's executive producer, tells NPR. "However, the word came back from
Tokyo that ... we can't let her go. I'm not sure why. Did she see something she
shouldn't have seen? Did they think she was spying? Who knows? We can
only speculate. But somewhere between when she thought she was rescued
and after that photo, she was held captive and she was brought to Saipan.”
The photo is proof, he says, of what many people on the Marshall Islands
have long held: Earhart and Noonan landed there and a Japanese boat called
Koshu took them to Saipan. The special interviewed people from Saipan,
including a woman Tarpinian says might be the last person alive who saw
Earhart with her own eyes.
"She was a 12-year-old girl who never forgot what she saw, because she had
never seen Caucasian people — she'd never seen Westerners," he says. "And
she remarked to her mother, 'Do all the women in the West dress like men,
with short hair and pants?' "
But Richard Gillespie, an Earhart expert who leads The International Group
for Historic Aircraft Recovery, isn't at all convinced the photograph depicts
the aviator.
"This is just a picture of a wharf at Jaluit, with a bunch of people," he told The
Guardian. "It's just silly."
Gillespie believes that Earhart died as a castaway on an island in what's now

Kiribati, according to the newspaper. "We found the site, we've done three
excavations there and we're finding artifacts that speak of an American
woman of the 1930s," he said.
He says the person in the Jaluit photo has hair too long to be Earhart, who he
says was photographed just days before, "and hair doesn't grow that fast."
National Archives communications director James Pritchett says the archives

doesn't know when the photo was taken, who the photographer was, or what
the "PL" in the caption means.
The archives posted the Jaluit photo to its website Thursday but isn't going to
make a statement on whether the people in the photo are Earhart and
Noonan, Pritchett says,
But even he is intrigued by the idea that it could be.
"I'm so fascinated by this myself," he says. "There are many discoveries that
happen all the time. It's usually some really swift members of the public. ...
People here find things on a really regular basis. We have billions of records
of all kinds."
Hear that, America? Get thee to the archives and solve some mysteries.
Name: Date:
Directions: Answer these questions as you read through the article a second time.
1. Number the paragraphs. How many paragraphs are there? ____________________
2. What evidence has just been found that leads people to believe Amelia Earhart survived?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
3. The term “smoking gun” is an expression of figurative language. It does not mean what it sounds like.
Reread this paragraph – what do you think the term means?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What do you think the word purported means?_______________________________________________

5. Give a synonym for the word scouring. _____________________________________________________
6. What makes Kinney believe that the photo was taken before 1943?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Compare this photo to the one at the beginning of the article. Now that you can see the full image,
does this make you believe more or less that this could be Amelia Earhart? Why?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
8. What do you think the word serene means?__________________________________________________

9. What reason would the Japanese government have to hold Amelia captive?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Write a synonym for the word captive. _____________________________________________________

11. Do all experts agree that this photograph shows Amelia Earhart? If not, name one expert who believes
and one expert who disagrees..
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
12. Why doesn’t Gillespie believe this is a photograph of Amelia Earhart? What is one reason?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
13A. What does the word swift mean? ________________________________________________________

13B. Is it used in the way you thought? __________ What is another possible definition?________________

Option 2:
Article with boxes for main idea
This option includes the article with boxes

for “main idea” notes that the students can
take as they read chunks of text. It is
followed by guided questions they can
answer as they read or after.
Name: Date:
Did Amelia Earhart Survive Plane Crash? Newly Discovered Number the paragraphs
Photo Offers Clues and read the article
carefully, taking notes
in the margin about
what you have read.
Make a prediction based
on the picture.
The show's experts say the short-haired person at the back is Earhart, and the
Earhart is turned away from the camera.
according to a post on History.com. "He believes the plane on the barge is the
Kent Gibson, another forensic analyst who specializes in facial recognition,
said it was 'very likely' the individuals in it are Earhart and Noonan. Both
next refueling station — she turned back westward and landed on Mili Atoll.
photo shows famed
aviator Amelia Earhart What do you see in the
and her navigator, Fred picture?
Noonan.
courtesy Les Kinney
An Earhart researcher named Richard Spink has taken many trips to the
Earhart and Noonan may then have been taken to a Japanese prison on the
island of Saipan, according to the special. But if Earhart and Noonan are
"They obviously believe that they've been rescued," Gary Tarpinian, the
show's executive producer, tells NPR. "However, the word came back from
Tokyo that ... we can't let her go. I'm not sure why. Did she see something she
shouldn't have seen? Did they think she was spying? Who knows? We can
only speculate. But somewhere between when she thought she was rescued
The photo is proof, he says, of what many people on the Marshall Islands
Koshu took them to Saipan. The special interviewed people from Saipan,
including a woman Tarpinian says might be the last person alive who saw
Earhart with her own eyes.
"She was a 12-year-old girl who never forgot what she saw, because she had
she remarked to her mother, 'Do all the women in the West dress like men,
with short hair and pants?' "
But Richard Gillespie, an Earhart expert who leads The International Group
for Historic Aircraft Recovery, isn't at all convinced the photograph depicts
the aviator.
"This is just a picture of a wharf at Jaluit, with a bunch of people," he told The
Gillespie believes that Earhart died as a castaway on an island in what's now

excavations there and we're finding artifacts that speak of an American
woman of the 1930s," he said.
He says the person in the Jaluit photo has hair too long to be Earhart, who he
says was photographed just days before, "and hair doesn't grow that fast."
National Archives communications director James Pritchett says the archives

doesn't know when the photo was taken, who the photographer was, or what
The archives posted the Jaluit photo to its website Thursday but isn't going to
Noonan, Pritchett says,
People here find things on a really regular basis. We have billions of records
of all kinds."
Name: Date:
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
13A. What does the word swift mean? ________________________________________________________

13B. Is it used in the way you thought? __________ What is another possible definition?________________

Option 3:
Article with questions as they
read
This option includes the article with guided

reading questions the students can answer
as they read the article. The questions are
meant to guide them through their reading
and help shape their understanding of the
article as they read.
Name: Date:
Did Amelia Earhart Survive Plane Crash? Newly Discovered Number the
Photo Offers Clues paragraphs. How many
paragraphs are there?
____________________
What evidence has just

been found that leads
people to believe Amelia
Earhart survived?
____________________
____________________
____________________
STOP! Think!
The term “smoking gun”
is an expression of
figurative language. It
does not mean what it
sounds like. Reread this
paragraph – what do
you think the term
means?
The show's experts say the short-haired person at the back is Earhart, and the ____________________
____________________
Earhart is turned away from the camera. ____________________
____________________
What do you think the
word purported
means?
____________________
____________________
according to a post on History.com. "He believes the plane on the barge is the ____________________
Kent Gibson, another forensic analyst who specializes in facial recognition, Give a synonym for the
said it was 'very likely' the individuals in it are Earhart and Noonan. Both word scouring.
____________________
What makes Kinney
believe that the photo
was taken before 1943?
next refueling station — she turned back westward and landed on Mili Atoll. ____________________
____________________
____________________
Compare this photo to the
photo shows famed one at the beginning of
aviator Amelia Earhart
and her navigator, Fred
the article. Now that you
Noonan. can see the full image,
courtesy Les Kinney
does this make you
believe more or less that
this could be Amelia
Earhart? Why?
______________________
______________________
______________________
An Earhart researcher named Richard Spink has taken many trips to the ______________________
What do you think the
word serene means?
Earhart and Noonan may then have been taken to a Japanese prison on the ______________________
island of Saipan, according to the special. But if Earhart and Noonan are ______________________
"They obviously believe that they've been rescued," Gary Tarpinian, the What reason would the
show's executive producer, tells NPR. "However, the word came back from Japanese government
Tokyo that ... we can't let her go. I'm not sure why. Did she see something she have to hold Amelia
shouldn't have seen? Did they think she was spying? Who knows? We can captive?
only speculate. But somewhere between when she thought she was rescued ______________________
______________________
The photo is proof, he says, of what many people on the Marshall Islands ______________________
Koshu took them to Saipan. The special interviewed people from Saipan, ______________________
including a woman Tarpinian says might be the last person alive who saw Write a synonym for the
Earhart with her own eyes. word captive.
"She was a 12-year-old girl who never forgot what she saw, because she had ______________________
she remarked to her mother, 'Do all the women in the West dress like men, STOP! Think!
with short hair and pants?' " Do all experts agree that
this photograph shows
But Richard Gillespie, an Earhart expert who leads The International Group Amelia Earhart? If not,
for Historic Aircraft Recovery, isn't at all convinced the photograph depicts name one expert who
the aviator. believes and one expert
who disagrees..
"This is just a picture of a wharf at Jaluit, with a bunch of people," he told The ______________________
______________________
Gillespie believes that Earhart died as a castaway on an island in what's now ______________________
excavations there and we're finding artifacts that speak of an American ______________________
woman of the 1930s," he said. ______________________
He says the person in the Jaluit photo has hair too long to be Earhart, who he Why doesn’t Gillespie
says was photographed just days before, "and hair doesn't grow that fast." believe this is a
photograph of Amelia
National Archives communications director James Pritchett says the archives Earhart? What is one
doesn't know when the photo was taken, who the photographer was, or what reason?
______________________
The archives posted the Jaluit photo to its website Thursday but isn't going to ______________________
Noonan, Pritchett says, ______________________
______________________
What does the word
swift mean?
People here find things on a really regular basis. We have billions of records ______________________
of all kinds." ______________________
Is the word swift used in
the same way as you
thought?
______________________
______________________
Comprehension
Questions/Activity
Open-Ended and Multiple-Choice

(STAAR-aligned) Questions
+
Written Summary Options
+
3-2-1 Chart
There are two summary options depending

on what you feel suits your students’
needs. Option 1 has a space for the
students to draw a picture and include a
caption and summarize the article. Option 2
has space for only written words. Both are
formatted two per page for less paper
waste.
Open-ended
Name:
questions “Amelia Earhart”
Comprehension Questions – use the text in order to answer these questions correctly.
1. List a few reasons why people doubt that the woman in the photograph is
actually Amelia Earhart.
2. What are two conflicting theories the article presents about what happened to
Amelia Earhart? Use evidence from the text to support both.
Theory 1 Theory 2
Evidence Evidence
3. What do you think really happened to Amelia Earhart? Do you believe one of the
theories presented in the article or do you have an alternate theory?
4. What kind of artifacts do you think they might have found on the island
mentioned in paragraph 14?

Multiple-choice
Name:
1. Why is paragraph 14 important to Gillespie’s argument?

A. It shows that Amelia Earhart made it to the island of Saipan alive.
B. It proves that Amelia Earhart was on the island of Kiribati before she died.
C. It gives evidence against the photo being real due to the length of Amelia’s hair.
D. It provides evidence as to why Gillespie believes she died on a different island.
2. The language Gillespie uses in paragraph 13 emphasizes –

A. his belief that the photograph really does show Amelia Earhart.
B. his disbelief that the woman in the photograph is Amelia Earhart.
C. his uncertainty as to who is truly in this photograph.
D. the questions that he has about the photograph.
3. What piece of evidence convinces Kinney that the photograph was taken before
1943?
A. The plane on the barge is the Electra, Amelia Earhart’s plane.
B. The island would have looked different after that time due to U.S. bombings of
the area.
C. A forensic analyst who specializes in facial recognition believes it is ‘very likely’
the woman in the photo is Amelia Earhart.
D. The caption on the photograph which included the date it was taken.
4. Which of these statements best summarizes paragraphs 7-10?

A. Some experts believe that this photograph is a hoax, or fake.
B. A few people believe that Earhart’s plane has been found in the Marshall Islands
which points to her survival.
C. Some people believe that Earhart survived the crash and she was taken
prisoner by the Japanese.
D. There are people on the island who claim they saw Amelia Earhart after she
crashed.
5. What does the information presented in the article suggest about how people view
this “photographic evidence”?
A. Not all experts are inclined to believe that this photograph shows Amelia Earhart.
B. Experts agree that this photograph proves Amelia survived her plane crash.
C. None of the Earhart researchers are convinced that this photograph proves
Earhart’s survival.
D. There are many theories about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.

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2 interesting facts or
3 things you learned 1 opinion you have
2 questions you have
Answer Keys
Remember the open-ended questions may
have more than one answer.
ANSWER KEY – Amelia Earhart
20
There is a photograph which some people believe shows Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Possible responses: the proof, the evidence, the one piece of proof
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Possible responses: suggested, supposed, think
Possible responses: searching, looking, uncovering
The U.S. conducted bombing runs on the island between 1943 and 1944, so the island would have
_________________________________________________________________________________________
looked different after 1943.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Answers will vary

_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Possible responses: calm, happy, peaceful
The Japanese government might have thought she was a spy or she might have seen something
_________________________________________________________________________________________
she was not supposed to
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Possible responses: prisoner
Not all experts agree. Les Kinney, Kent Gibson, and Gary Tarpinian believe the photograph is real.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Richard Gillespie does not agree. He believes the photograph does not prove anything.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Possible responses: 1 – There is an island with artifacts speaking of an American woman of the 1930s
_________________________________________________________________________________________
who Gillespie believes is Earhart. 2 – The woman’s hair in the photograph is too long to be Earhart.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Possible responses: fast, quick,
13. What does the word swift mean? _________________________________________________________
No
14. Is it used in the way you thought? __________ Smart, clever
What is another possible definition?________________

ANSWER KEY
Name:
Amelia Earhart “Amelia Earhart”
1. List a few reasons why people doubt that the woman in the photograph is
actually Amelia Earhart.
Possible responses: the woman in the photograph has hair too long to be Amelia Earhart;
there is an island that has artifacts of what could possibly be a woman of the 1930s.
2. What are two conflicting theories the article presents about what happened to
Amelia Earhart? Use evidence from the text to support both.
Theory 1 Theory 2
Earhart and Noonan landed in the Marshall Amelia Earhart died as a castaway
Islands, survived, and were taken on another island
prisoner.
Evidence Evidence
The photograph is one piece of evidence There have been excavations of the
as well as the eyewitness account of a 12 island and artifacts have been found
year old girl on the island. There are also which seem to belong to an
some who claim to have found pieces of American woman of the 1930s.
Earhart’s plane in the area.
3. What do you think really happened to Amelia Earhart? Do you believe one of the
theories presented in the article or do you have an alternate theory?
Answers will vary.
4. What kind of artifacts do you think they might have found on the island
mentioned in paragraph 14?
Answers will vary. Possible responses: items for a woman – possibly toiletry
items or clothing.

Multiple-choice
Name:
1. Why is paragraph 14 important to Gillespie’s argument?

A. It shows that Amelia Earhart made it to the island of Saipan alive.
B. It proves that Amelia Earhart was on the island of Kiribati before she died.
C. It provides evidence against the photo being real due to the length of Amelia’s
hair.
D. It provides evidence as to why Gillespie believes she died on a different island.
2. The language Gillespie uses in paragraph 13 emphasizes –

A. his belief that the photograph really does show Amelia Earhart.
B. his disbelief that the woman in the photograph is Amelia Earhart.
C. his uncertainty as to who is truly in this photograph.
D. the questions that he has about the photograph.
3. What piece of evidence convinces Kinney that the photograph was taken before
1943?
A. The plane on the barge is the Electra, Amelia Earhart’s plane.
B. The island would have looked different after that time due to U.S. bombings of
the area.
C. A forensic analyst who specializes in facial recognition believes it is ‘very likely’
the woman in the photo is Amelia Earhart.
D. The caption on the photograph which included the date it was taken.
4. Which of these statements best summarizes paragraphs 7-10?

A. Some experts believe that this photograph is a hoax, or fake.
B. A few people believe that Earhart’s plane has been found in the Marshall Islands
which points to her survival.
C. Some people believe that Earhart survived the crash and she was taken
prisoner by the Japanese.
D. There are people on the island who claim they saw Amelia Earhart after she
crashed.
5. What does the information presented in the article suggest about how people view
this “photographic evidence”?
A. Not all experts are inclined to believe that this photograph shows Amelia Earhart.
B. Most experts agree that this photograph proves Amelia survived her plane
crash.
C. None of the Earhart researchers are convinced that this photograph proves
anything.
D. There are many theories about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.

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Gillespie believes that Earhart died as a castaway on an island in what's now

National Archives communications director James Pritchett says the archives

But even he is intrigued by the idea that it could be.

4. What do you think the word purported means?_______________________________________________

8. What do you think the word serene means?__________________________________________________

10. Write a synonym for the word captive. _____________________________________________________

13A. What does the word swift mean? ________________________________________________________

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Gillespie believes that Earhart died as a castaway on an island in what's now

National Archives communications director James Pritchett says the archives

But even he is intrigued by the idea that it could be.

4. What do you think the word purported means?_______________________________________________

8. What do you think the word serene means?__________________________________________________

10. Write a synonym for the word captive. _____________________________________________________

13A. What does the word swift mean? ________________________________________________________

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1. Why is paragraph 14 important to Gillespie’s argument?

2. The language Gillespie uses in paragraph 13 emphasizes –

4. Which of these statements best summarizes paragraphs 7-10?

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