National Parks
Vocabulary
Punctuation
From the Text
Fluency
100

This is the national park located in the southwest corner of Colorado.

What is Mesa Verde?

100

Knowing how to do something very well.  8 letters.

What is expertly.

100

The punctuation mark used after a sentence asking a question.  

What is a question mark?

100

In Interview with Henry Snow, a Meteorologist from Channel 2 NewsCenter, Chicago, he spoke about severe weather.  Severe weather will increase in these two months.

What are May and June?

100

Tell one thing a reader must do to read fluently.

What is read with expression, accuracy, good pace, phrases?

200

This is the national park located in Florida.

What is Everglades National Park?

200

Saying something over and over again.  5 letters.

What is chant?

200

In Calling for Snow, Paula sings a song while waiting at the bus stop.  Suddenly she hears a voice say, "What are you doing?".  Name the mark that is used at the beginning and ending of dialogue.

What are quotation marks?

200

In The Snow Maiden, the girl eventually melted.  Tell what caused her to melt.

What is love?

200
A group of words that is not a complete sentence on its own.

What is a phrase?

300

The national park located in Hawaii is known for having two active volcanoes.  Name those volcanoes.

What are Mauna Loa and Kilauea?

300

The top of a mountain.  6 letters. 

What is summit?

300

When listing multiple items, we use this punctuation mark to separate the words.

What is a comma?

300

In Climbing Mount Everest, we learned about the dangers of climbing the tallest mountain in the world.  Name one of those dangers.

What are glaciers, strong winds, deep cracks, heavy snow, or cold air?

300

Places to pause.

What is punctuation or between phrases?

400

Mesa Verde National Park is known for its cliff dwellings.  Name another word for dwelling.

What is home?

400

Happen.  5 letters.

What is occur?

400

This is the punctuation mark used at the end of an exclamatory sentence.

What is an exclamation point?

400

In My Summer Adventure, Jonathan wrote a letter to his friend Alejandro telling him all about his trip to Voyageurs National Park.  Tell where Jonathan and his sister explored during their first day in the park.

What is a gold mine?

400

The ultimate goal of fluency is to make our reading sound like this.

What is how we speak?

500

Yosemite National Park has two popular sites.  Name one of those sites.

What is Half Dome or Yosemite Falls?

500

Easily breakable.  Delicate.  7 letters.

What is fragile?

500

When the words mister or misses are abbreviated, this is the punctuation mark we use.  

What is a period.

500

In An Outdoor Classroom, we learned about Yosemite National Park.  Visitors can learn about the park's habitat, plants, and animals at this place within the park.

What is the visitors center?

500

This is a way we track our fluency in lessons, so we know if you are improving or not.  

What are graphs for one minute reads?