Word Analysis
The word contains the Greek
root meaning sound?
A. astonish
B. telephone
C. southern
D. wonder
What is telephone?
What does the word cunning
mean in this sentence?
The cunning lizard knew
how to survive.
A. having a long tail
B. small but colorful
C. good at fooling other animals
D. able to fit into tiny places
C. good at fooling other animals
The sentence with a preposition underlined?
A. The bird carried an acorn in its beak.
B. The bird carried an acorn in its beak.
C. The bird carried an acorn in its beak.
D. The bird carried an acorn in its beak.
What is in?
Which statement about Penny is true?
A. She is Ruby’s sister.
B. She is sitting beside Ruby.
C. She is deaf.
D. She knows Sign Language.
D. She knows Sign Langauge
Complete this sentence from the story. Write the words on the lines.
She hadn’t even___________ the really interesting
part—how bees___________ by dancing.
mentioned, communicate
The word contains the Greek
root meaning write?
A. shepherd
B. wrist
C. address
D. paragraph
What is a paragraph?
An idea based on thinking
or observation is a
A. stationery.
B. ransom.
C. picket.
D. theory.
What is theory?
The sentence contains a preposition?
A. Our house is small but has a nice garden.
B. My parents bought the house long ago.
C. The kitchen is the room we like best.
D. The house with the big garden is ours.
What is the house with the big garden is ours?
Which sentence from the story best supports
your answer for Part A?
A. Making, I signed back, since I didn’t know the American
Sign Language sign for “inventing.”
B. Penny isn’t deaf, but her cousin is, so she goes to sign
language class on Tuesdays after school to learn how
to communicate with him.
C. My best friend, Penny, waved from across the room
to get my attention.
D. All the same, Penny was right to warn me about my invention.
B. Penny isn’t deaf, but her cousin is, so she goes to sign
What did Colin mean when he said that Ruby owed them honey and chocolate?
Ruby had done something on a fieldtrip so they could not taste honey. She had broken the candy jar on Ms. Slate's desk.
The word contains the Greek
prefix meaning self?
A. automated
B. shelving
C. insulation
D. twelfth
What is automated?
A legal document that protects
inventors is called a
A. patent.
B. nozzle.
C. mimic.
D. flurry.
What is patent?
Complete this sentence using a prepositional phrase.
Cars were parked _______________.
A. the parking lot C. watched the game
B. in the street D. some even rode
What is in the street?
Why did Colin think Ruby ruined the honey field trip?
A. She was showing off. C. She wants to be first in line.
B. Everything is a contest. D. She broke a candy jar.
A. She was showing off.
Why didn’t Ms. Slate see the attack of the flying clothespin?
She was busy helping Colin pronounce a Japanese word from the book he was reading.
The word contains the Greek
prefix meaning distant?
A. disappear
B. lantern
C. telescope
D. discover
What is a telescope?
What is superstition?
A. the highest part of
a chain of mountains
B. explaining how to do
something in simple steps
C. believing something that
has no support
D. a method of building
unusual things
C. believing something that has no support
Complete this sentence using a prepositional phrase.
Earth revolves________________________ .
A. like Saturn’s rings C. around the sun
B. our closest neighbor D. on the moon
What is around the sun?
Which of these is a fact about Ruby?
A. She is good at science.
B. She was making a page turner.
C. She is very hard to get along with.
D. She does not like to read.
B. She was making a page turner.
Why did the Page-o-Matic fall to the floor?
Ruby put a pencil case under it and shoved too hard.
Read the words. Some of the
words are related, but one
is not. Choose the word that
is not related to the others.
A. hill
B. closet
C. plain
D. valley
What is a closet?
If you are using caution when
you do something, you are
A. doing it with friends.
B. being careful.
C. taking pictures at
the same time.
D. enjoying it.
What is being careful?
A sentence using the prepositional phrase without a doubt.
She is without a doubt the best chess player in our school.
How do you know Penny was worried?
A. She didn’t want to answer Ms. Slate’s question.
B. She was finger spelling and not signing.
C. She was twirling her hair around her finger.
D. She said “Ruby” under her breath.
C. She was twirling her hair around her finger.
How do you know Dominic is good at science?
He won a gold medal at the science fair for the past two years.