Vocabulary
Comprehension I
Comprehension II
How Do You Say...?
Potpourri
100
A nest
What is a burrow.
100
The setting of the story.
What is Iceland; Heimaey (HAY * mah * ay) Island.
100
The season the puffins return to the area where Halla lives.
What is spring.
100
The language they speak in Iceland.
What is Icelandic.
100
Fill in the blank. When I hold my friend's cat, it ____________ its head under my arm.
What is nestles.
200
To go out into a dangerous place.
What is venture.
200
The reason the puffins come ashore in the spring.
What is to lay eggs and raise puffin chicks.
200
The reason baby puffins must stay in their homes for several weeks.
What is they must stay in a safe place until they can fly.
200
Puffin in Icelandic.
What is lundi (loon * dah).
200
The genre of this story.
What is nonfiction.
300
To do without thinking.
What is instinctively.
300
The reason the author calls puffins the "Clowns of the sea".
What is they look like clowns.
300
The reason some pufflings crash-land in the village.
What is they get confused by the village lights.
300
Fish in Icelandic.
What is fisk (fihsk).
300
Choose the correct sequence. puffin-chick-puffling; chick-puffling-puffin; chick-puffin-puffling
What is chick-puffling-puffin.
400
To be left behind or in a helpless situation.
What is stranded.
400
This is where the baby puffins live.
What is in burrows on high cliffs.
400
The length of time the children keep the pufflings in the cardboard boxes.
What is they set them free the next day.
400
Puffling in Icelandic. The children yell this when they search for them in the streets at night.
What is lundi pysja (loon * dah peesh * yar).
400
Two dangers that the stranded pufflings face.
What are cats and dogs may eat them, and cars and trucks can run them over.
500
Having no people living there.
What is uninhabited.
500
The reason puffins must catch lots of fish.
What is they have to feed themselves as well as the pufflings.
500
The reason the children of Heimaey rescue the pufflings.
What is to help the pufflings fly out to sea. (To save them from danger)
500
The little girl's name in our story.
What is Halla (Hattl * lah).
500
The way the children release the pufflings into the sea. (describe in sequence)
What is they hold it up so they can get used to flapping their wings, count to three, swing the pufflings three times between their legs, and then launch them up in the air and into the water.
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