Story Comprehension
Cause/ Effect
Genre
Conjuctions
Vocabulary
100
The author wrote the selection because -----
What is the author wants to share information about Martin Luther King Jr.'s childhood that few people know.
100
The author's parents had her sleep in a drawer for a few days because---
What is she was born early, and her parents didn't have a crib yet?
100
Sleeping Beauty Snow White Cinderella
What are Fairy Tales?
100
Parks was taken off the bus and arrested. Name the conjunction.
What is and?
100
___________ are relatives that come before you.
What are ancestors?
200
The Main Idea from the selection
What is the King children grew up when laws kept black and white people apart.
200
The author's father kept his children close to home because---
What is he wanted to protect them from being hurt by the unfair laws?
200
These stories helped ancient Greeks and Romans understand the world around them by telling about Gods and Goddesses.
What are Myths?
200
She was told to give up her seat on a bus, but she refused. Name the conjunction.
What is but?
200
A ___________ is a preacher.
What is minister?
300
The last picture in the selection shows the changes that Martin Luther made in the world ... How?
What is it shows that, today, children of different colors can be friends and play together.
300
The effect that losing their friends had on the King children---
What is they began to understand the problems blacks faced?
300
Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and the Hardy Boys all fall into this investigative genre.
What is mystery?
300
In those days you kept your mouth shut, or you got into trouble. Name the conjunction.
What is or?
300
If you have _______________ questions, you have many.
What is numerous?
400
The conclusions that you can draw about this family from the reading the selection.
What is they are a close and loving family? The children play together. They spend time with older relatives who read to them and tell them stories.
400
Martin Luther promised his mother that one day he would "turn this world upside down" because he did not ---
What is he didn't like the way he was treated?
400
A story about a person's life written by that person is this genre.
What is Autobiography?
400
Black Americans were not allowed to use certain restaurants or hotels. Name the conjunction.
What is or?
400
When the family _____________ the streetcars, they did not ride them.
What is avoided?
500
When the author and her brothers were children, these are the kinds of laws some places in our country had.
What is some places had laws that said it was right to seperate black people and white people.
500
Martin Luther's father refused to buy shoes at one particular store because ---
What is the salesman would only serve blacks at the back of the store?
500
The story of a real person's life as told by someone else falls into this genre.
What is biography?
500
They called me Christine, and like three peas in one pod, we grew together.
What is and?
500
Aunt Ida was _______________ the children from injustice when she kept them from it.
What is shielding?