Switched At Birth Girls Want To Stay With Wrong Moms (1090l) - Middle School Reading Article Worksheet
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Switched at Birth Girls Want to Stay With Wrong Moms (1090L)
Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES
Read the following article carefully and make notes in the margin as you read.
Your notes should include:
o Comments that show that you understand the article. (A summary or statement of the main
idea of important sections may serve this purpose.)
o Questions you have that show what you are wondering about as you read.
o Notes that differentiate between fact and opinion.
o Observations about how the writer’s strategies (organization, word choice, perspective,
support) and choices affect the article.
Your margin notes are part of your score for this assessment.
Answer the questions carefully in complete sentences unless otherwise instructed.
Student ____________________________Class Period__________________
Notes on my thoughts,
Switched at Birth Girls Want to Stay With Wrong Moms
reactions and questions as I
A pair of 12-year-old girls who discovered they were accidentally switched at
read:
birth want to stay with the mothers who have been raising them rather than go to
their real parents. The girls have grown up just a few miles away from each
other in the town of Kopeisk in the Ural Mountains of eastern Russia.
Their mothers gave birth in the same maternity ward just 15 minutes apart in
1999, and their infant daughters were inadvertently given the wrong name tags.
Their true identities were revealed after the ex-husband of Yuliya Belyaeva, one
of the mothers, refused to pay for child care because his daughter, Irina, looked
nothing like him. After conducting several DNA tests it emerged that neither
adult was Irina's biological parent. "The judge couldn't believe it," Belyaeva told
the BBC. "She said she'd only seen cases like this on TV and didn't know what
to advise us."
The DNA tests sent Belyaeva on a search for her own daughter. She
remembered that when she was giving birth, another woman was also in labor in
the same ward. She suspected that the maternity ward had mixed up their
daughters.
"I made a photocopy of the DNA test results and went straight to the prosecutor's
office. There I lodged an official complaint about being given the wrong baby in
the maternity hospital," Yuliya said.
Hasan L. Good Morning American. Available online at Good Morning America. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
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