Vocabulary activity for Chapter 15-16 of On the Banks of Plum Creek 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.
"It had gone down from the steps and Laura could see it foaming against the _____."
stand
footbridge
ford
"Only her head was out, and one arm _____ across the narrow plank."
desperately
naughtily
scold
"'Well, Laura, you have been very _____ and I think you knew it all the time.'"
knoll
slender
naughty
"'I can't even _____ you. You came near being drowned.'"
gather
sorrel
scold
"He must plow deep and harrow well, and get the wheat _____ quickly."
shingles
sowed
hewed
"Laura waited in the dark till she heard Sam and David splashing into the _____."
knoll
sorrel
ford
"Violets and buttercups were thick in the prairie hollows, and the _____ clover-like leaves and lavender blossoms were sour and good to eat."
sow's
sorrel's
ford's
"Everyone was happy that night because the wheat was a good _____."
knoll
stand
hew
"The timbers stood up _____ and golden-new."
slender
partition
gather
"Laura and Mary _____ them in piles and built houses of their own."
bought
shingled
gathered
"They shingled the roof with _____ shingles."
ford
boughten
partition
"Boughten _____ were thin and all the same size."
footbridges
shingles
sorrels
"They were far finer shingles than even Pa could _____ with an ax."
hew
scold
sow
"Across the downstairs, Pa put up a _____."
slender
ford
partition
"In the sunshine on the _____, its sawed-lumber walls and roof were as golden as a straw-stack."