Pages 283-285
Pages 286-289
Pages 290-293
General Questions
PSSA Questions
100
Tell what problem the bears have in the passage.
What is someone broke into their home?
100
Tell why Sam and Cam want the Professor to help them.
What is because he is good at studying clues?
100
True of False: The intruder finished watching the whole movie.
What is false?
100
Tell if this story is real or make believe.
What is make believe?
100
Describe Cam and Sam.
What is intelligent because they solve mysteries?
200
Explain why the bears go to see Cam and Sam.
What is they need their help to solve the mystery?
200
Tell what movie the intruder watched.
What is "The Banana That Ate Belmont"?
200
Tell how Bananas Bennett feels when he sees the bears at his door.
What is scared or frightened?
200
Tell if the story is fiction or nonfiction.
What is fiction?
200
Tell what helped Sam and Cam solve the mystery.
What are the clues they found?
300
Tell what the intruder did in the bears' house.
What is sat in their chairs, ate their food, and watched a movie?
300
Besides the banana pancakes tell what else the intruder ate.
What is the bananas?
300
Tell what Bananas Bennett said on page 291 that helped you figure out he was the intruder.
What is, "I had to get some more syrup for my banana pancakes. Ooops!"
300
Tell the author's purpose for writing this passage.
What is to entertain?
300
If the story were to continue predict what you think the bears and Bananas Bennett would do next.
What is they would eat the banana pancakes?
400
Tell why Papa bear was embarrassed when Cam and Sam came to his house.
What is because his house was messy?
400
Tell what the Professor is going to do with the yellow hairs.
What is take them back to his laboratory to study them?
400
Tell what happened next after Sam says that the yellow hairs were really yellow yarn from a sweater.
What is Bananas confesses and tells what really happened?
400
Explain what you think makes Cam and Sam such good detectives.
What is that they are good at finding clues?
400
If the story were to continue predict what you think Sam and Cam would do next.
What is go to solve Little Red Riding Hood's mystery?
500
Identify the first clue Sam found in the bears' house.
What are yellow hairs?
500
Tell why Sam suspects Bananas Bennett.
What is because he is the biggest banana fan in the world?
500
Tell how Bananas Bennett felt about breaking into the bears' house.
What is guilty and sorry?
500
Tell what Bananas Bennett did to show he was sorry.
What is make banana pancakes for the three bears?
500
On page 287 find an example of personification.
What is, "The Banana That Ate Belmont"?
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