Vocabulary activity for Chapter 17-18 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.
"Laura hardly dared look at Pa; they were _____ with the secret suprise for Ma."
bursting
bristling
pattering
"Her little china _____ laced with china-gold ribbons and her little china apron and her little china shoes."
nick
bodice
drowse
"She was not _____ nor even scratched."
nicked
bulged
leeched
"Laura had not heard rain _____ on the roof for so long that she had forgotten the sound of it."
raftering
astonishing
pattering
"She was happy while she lay _____ to sleep again."
bursting
drowsing
squelching
"Overhead was the slanting roof of yellow-bright shingles and the _____ holding them up."
pincers
rafters
leeches
"Laura was _____. This was such a different-looking creek."
astonished
bristled
nicked
"In front he had two long arms that ended in big, flat, _____."
bodices
pincer-claws
drowses
"_____ stuck out of his nose."
Bristles
Patters
Rafters
"His eyes were round and _____."
bursting
astonishing
bulging
"The mud _____ between Laura's toes and came up in clouds till she could not see the bottom."
bodiced
squelched
pattered
"Ma said they were _____ and that doctors put them on sick people."