Main Idea
The main idea of the passage is...
What is Maya and Grandma Alice work together to create a colorful garden and win a contest?
This caused Maya and Grandma Alice to enter the garden contest
What is Grandma Alice told Maya about the contest, and Maya was excited to join?
Character trait that best describes Maya when she first hears about the garden contest
What is excited?
Describes the main theme of the story
What is working together and not giving up leads to success?
Point of view the story is written in
What is third person?
The main idea of the middle of the story is...
What is Maya learns that gardening can be hard work and requires patience?
The effect the storm had on the garden
How did the flowers get flattened and damaged?
Character trait Grandma Alice shows when she encourages Maya not to give up after the storm
What is kindness?
Lesson Maya learns by the end of the story
Why is hard work and patience are important when things go wrong?
Tell you what person the story is written
How does the narrator describes the characters' actions and feelings?
The main idea of the paragraph about the storm is...
What is Maya feels discouraged, but Grandma Alice teaches her not to give up?
This caused Maya to fell discouraged after the storm
What is she thought the Rainbow Garden was ruined and they couldn’t win?
Character trait that best describes Maya while working in the garden
What is hardworking?
Rainbow Garden represent the story’s theme
What is showing how beautiful things come from hard work and care?
Sentence from the story that tells Maya's feelings
What is "Maya nodded, already dreaming about what they could plant next summer"?
The main idea of the ending of the story...
What is winning the contest made Maya love gardening even more?
The effect of Maya and Grandma Alice working hard to fix the garden
What is the garden became even more colorful and beautiful by contest day?
Trait both Maya and Grandma Alice show by fixing the garden after the storm
What is determined?
Quote from the story best supports the theme
What is "Sometimes things don’t go the way you expect. But that doesn't mean you give up."?
The story would different if it were told from Maya’s first-person point of view
What is the reader would only know what Maya sees, thinks, and feels?
Summarizes the main idea of the entire story
What is hard work can lead to success?
Maya and Grandma Alice when first place in the garden contest because
What is he judges liked the colors and creativity of their Rainbow Garden?
Grandma Alice’s attitude about gardening and life
What is patience?
The story teaches readers what about facing challenges
What is challenges are a part of life, and working through them makes success sweeter?
Third-person point of view is good for this story because
What is letting the reader see what every character is thinking and feeling?