Characters
Plot
Theme
Vocabulary
Fun Little Details
100

These two main characters were best friends.

Opal and Winn-Dixie

100

The place where Winn-Dixie is discovered.

Winn-Dixie Grocery Store

100

The feeling Opal felt when she first moved. (theme topic)

loneliness

100

Littmus W. Block __________ the Littmus Lozenge to bring a little sweetness to a sad world. 

invented

100

Winn-Dixie was terrified of these.

thunderstorms

200

This character was an ex-criminal who gave Opal a job.

Otis

200

A Littmus Lozenge tastes like these three things. 

root beer, strawberry, and sadness

200

Gloria Dump helped Opal see people with her heart and taught her this important lesson.

Accept people for who they are right now/in the present.

Don't  judge others for past mistakes.

200

Gertrude, the parrot, would always  ________ others.

imitate

200

Miss Franny had mistaken Winn-Dixie for this animal when she first met him.

a bear

300

This character established a library and loved to tell stories.

Miss Franny Block

300

This helped to get Winn-Dixie out from underneath Gloria Dump's bed during a thunderstorm. 

Otis's music

300

Winn-Dixie helps the preacher come "out of his shell" and teaches him the importance of this theme topic.

family or love

300

Winn-Dixie had a _____________ fear of thunderstorms. 

pathological 

300

The name children gave Gloria Dump.

"witch"

400

The character who Opal grew to like at the end of the story.

Amanda Wilkinson or Stevie Dewberry

400

When Opal moved to Naomi, she was lonely. Winn-Dixie helped Opal to make a lot of ___________.

friendships

400

Opal has more of this (theme topic) for Amanda Wilkinson when she finds out about her brother, Carson. 

compassion

400

Opal's mother__________ her and her father.

abandoned 

400

The name of the store where Opal worked.

Gertrude's Pet Store

500

The character who Opal compared to "a turtle in a shell, not ever sticking his head out into the world."

Opal's father, the preacher

500

The narrator of the novel.

India Opal

500

Just about everything that happened to Opal that summer happened for this reason.

Because of Winn-Dixie

500

A sad/gloomy state of mind. Opal felt _________ when she lost Winn-Dixie.

melancholy 

500

The book Opal read to Gloria Dump.

"Gone with the Wind"