Vocabulary
Literacy Analysis
Literacy Analysis Cont.
Comprehension
Comprehension Cont.
100
What does the word Erupt mean?
What is to release one's anger or enthusiasm in a sudden, noisy way.
100
What does setting mean?
What is when and where the story takes place.
100
what does mood mean?
What is the feeling the writer creates for readers.
100
Lob meets the Pengellys at the _______
What is the beach
100
Sandy's parents look "white-faced and shocked" when Granny Pearce brings Lob into Sandy's room because_____
What is they already know that Lob is dead.
200
What does Melancholy mean?
What is sad; gloomy
200
What does forshadowing mean?
What is a writer's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will happen later in a story.
200
What does inference mean?
What is a conclusion a reader draws based off of clues from the story and his or her own prior knowledge.
200
What wakes Sandy from her coma?
What is Lob's whine
200
Mr. Dodsworth lets Lob with the Pengelly because Lob
What is walks across England twice.
300
What does Reluctant mean?
What is unwilling.
300
What does sequence mean?
What is the order of events in a story.
300
What is the first event that happens in the story?
What is Lob knocks Sandy down on the beach, and he begins to lick the sand off of her face.
300
Which of these events happens first? 1. One evening in October, Sandy and Lob are hit by a truck. 2. It began on the beach on this summer day when Sandy meets Lob. 3. Nine years went by and Lob changes less than Sandy. She is a teen and he became a little slower, stiffer, had a touch a gray on his nose, but he was still a handsome dog.
What is 2.
300
Which of these events happens first in the story? 1. Nine years went by and Lob changes less than Sandy. She is a teen and he became a little slower, stiffer, had a touch a gray on his nose, but he was still a handsome dog. 2. After supper one evening Lob bounces through the kitchen window making a loud thump and crash of china. 3. A week passed and Lob returned after walking 400 miles from Liverpool.
What is 2.
400
What does Decisively mean?
What is in a clear, definite way.
400
Which words help you identify the sequence in the following passage? "It began on the beach, the summer when Sandy was five, Don, her older brother, twelve, and the twins were three. Sandy was really Alexandra, because her grandmother had a beautiful picture of a queen in diamond tiara and high collar of pearls."
What is it began on the beach.
400
Which event happens last in the story?
What is Lob comes to be with Sandy when she is in the hospital.
400
Which of these events happens first in the story? 1. At tea time, Granny Pearce finds Lob outside at the main entrance of the hospital brings him to Sandy. 2. The next day was Saturday and Sandy went to watch Lob and Mr. Dodsworth board the train back home. 3. In ten days time, Lob comes back and this time stays with the Pengelly family for good.
What is 2.
400
How does Lob change in the nine years during which he belongs to the Pengellys?
multiple answers
500
What does Agitated mean?
What is disturbed; upset.
500
What words help you identify the sequence in the following passage? "A week passed. Then, one evening, Mrs. Pengelly and the younger children were in the front room playing snakes and ladders. Mr Pengelly and Don had gone fishing on the evening tide."
What is a week passed.
500
How does the author foreshadow the accident?
What is describing the weather as wet and rainy. (Making reference to the sign again)
500
What surprising thing does Granny Pearce learn about Lob at the hospital?
What is he has passed away.
500
Explain how Lob is loyal to Sandy more so than any other member of the Pengelly family.
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