Vocabulary activity for Chapter 4 of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder!
Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.
He _____ them with his knife, he rubbed them with sandpaper and with the palm of his hand, until when Laura touched them they felt soft and smooth as silk.
chopped
whittled
sawed
She baked salt-rising bread and rye'n'Injun bread, and _____ _____, and a huge pan of baked beans, with salt pork and molasses.
Swedish crackers
unlevened bread
sugar cookies
They made circles, and _____, and squiggledly things, and these hardened at once and were candy.
squiggles
squares
curlicues
They made circles, and curlicues, and _____ things, and these hardened at once and were candy.
scratchy
curly
squiggedly
But Prince jumped into the path ahead of her and _____ at her.
smiled
snarled
lunged
"He was so _____, I thought he was going to bite me," said Aunt Eliza.
scared
savage
mean
A black pencil had made her eyebrows, and her cheeks and her mouth were red with the ink made from _____.
strawberries
pokeberries
apples
Her hair was black yarn that had been knit and _____, so that it was curly.
curled
raveled
twisted
She had little red flannel stockings and little black cloth _____ for shoes, and her dress was pretty pink and blue calico.
sandles
gaiters
slippers
Ma slipped piping hot baked potatoes into their pockets to keep their fingers warm, and Aunt Eliza's _____ were hot on the stove, ready to put at their feet in the sled.