Skylark Exercise

Name:_______________________ Date:__________________________

Match the following words with their definitions.
___prairie a. period of little or no rain
___coyote b. animalsimilar to a wolf that lives in western North America
___phonograph c. wide area of flat or rolling land with tall grasses and few trees
___drought d. old-fashioned record player

Readcarefully and choose the best answer.
1. The ________ lasted for many days.
a. drought
b. party
c. trip
2. Anna and her brother, Caleb, wanted their stepmother to _____________.
a. be angry
b.be happy
c. to leave soon
3. Anna and Caleb helped organize a surprise ____________ for Sarah.
a. birthday party
b. dinner
c. farewell party
4. Some of the ________________ left the prairiebecause they didn’t have enough water.
a. children
b. neighbors
c. teachers
5. Anna, Caleb, and Sarah left the prairie because the _____________ was too bad for them to stay.
a. drought
b. partyc. trip

Read the following passage and put the quotation marks where they belong.

Pirate is the title of the story that the IPSP students sent to Edmonds Elementary School in Washington. Whenthey received the second chapter Jose and Alondra said, We hope they wrote something awesome! I read it and it was great, said Mrs. Alvarez.
Identify the following story elements.
_______ PatriciaMacLachlan
_______ “Skylark”
_______ Papa, Sarah, Anna, and Caleb
_______ The land the family has worked so hard to farm is drying up because of the drought.
_______ The story takes place on theprairie.
_______ After the terrible fire, Anna, Caleb, and Sarah leave Papa behind to rebuild the farm.

Answer true or false.
______Anna’s stepmother, Sarah, cried because she felt sorry for thecoyote.
______The drought made it difficult for everyone on the prairie.
______Anna woke up one night and saw that the farm was on fire.
______The family was able to put the fire out very fast....