Explain why the woodpecker flies to the holes in the tree.
What is to find food?
200
Identify which vocabulary word on page 412 means "to get a quick look at something".
What is glimpse?
200
Identify the passage as fiction or nonfiction.
What is nonfiction?
200
Identify the type of figurative language that contains two words or more beginning with the same sound.
What is alliteration?
300
Explain what scratches on a tree mean.
What is that a bear sharpened its claws on the tree?
300
Name the first animal that uses the hollow place in the tree.
What is a squirrel?
300
Find the vocabulary word on page 416 which means "to stick something sharp through an object"?
What is spears?
300
Identify the author's purpose for writing the passage.
What is to give facts and information?
300
Identify the type of figurative language that compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
400
Explain why the author tells about the bears scratching the tree first.
What is because the scratching makes the hole?
400
Name the animal that may use the hollow place in the tree in the spring.
What are bluebirds?
400
Identify the missing information in the sequence:
1. The bear scratches the tree with his claws.
2.
3. The woodpecker eats the beetles.
4. Bark begins to loosen and fall off.
What is timber beetles make a hole and form tunnels inside the tree?
400
True or false: The author thinks holes in trees are not important.
What is false?
400
Identify the type of figurative language that compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
500
Explain what happens first to a tree that gets a hole.
What is beetles make their tunnels in the hole?
500
Explain how timber beetles change the tree.
What is they make more holes?
500
Identify the season in which you might find mice living in the hollow of the tree.
What is winter?
500
Explain the relationship that existed between the tree and the animals?
What is the animals used it for shelter and a food source?
500
Explain which type of figurative language involves a nonliving thing doing an action a human would.