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• Scan the story quickly.
• Read the story carefully.
• Visualize the details.
• Write down the “most important” facts or details.

The Search

The Mounties had tried every method they knew, but they had not been able to find Rita. It was now late afternoon and the men had been searching the waterfalls for three hours.

Rita‘s friends had seen her walking along the rocks at the edge of the pool of water just above the falls. A few minutes later, she had disappeared. They had searched and called her name, but there had been no answer. While one of the friends went to town to get the R.C.M.P., the others continued looking.

The waterfalls were beautiful as they fell about fifty feet down over the rock cliff. The pool at the bottom of the falls was very deep, but some of the better swimmers from the town sometimes would swim there. Now the current was too fast, and the water from the falls made a terrible roar as it fell into the pool at the bottom.