Vocabulary activity for Chapter 19-20 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.
"She took the book named Millbank, and opened it, and looking up _____ at Ma she read."
spindly
mournfully
anxiously
"_____ streamed from the door knob."
Lawn
Crape
Frizz
"You are only _____ what you've heard me read to Pa so often."
fidgeting
slating
reciting
"They were making a _____ box."
snipe
skeleton
holler
"'I like it better here,' Laura said, _____."
frizzily
spindly
mournfully
"'It isn't everybody that gets a chance to learn to read and write and _____.'"
horrid
cipher
slate
"Mary's was a blue-_____ calico, and Laura's was red-_____."
frizzed
ciphered
sprigged
"She looked solemnly at Mary and Laura, and they were _____, too."
solemn
recite
anxious
"'It's the school where we hear the _____.'"
hollering
reciting
troughing
"They were not as much surprised as Laura. She was _____, too."
spindly
mournful
ashamed
"Then a freckled boy with fire-colored hair yelled, "_____, yourselves!'"
Snipes
Horrids
Crapes
"Their bare legs did look long and _____, like snipes' legs."
spindly
lawn
ashamed
"'My name is Christy Kennedy, and that _____ boy is my brother Sandy.'"
horrid
frizz
ashamed
"Her dress was thin white _____, with little blue flowers scattered over it."
lawn
crape
sprig
"Her brown hair was _____ in bangs over her brown eyes."
staled
sprigged
frizzed
"Some kind of short, white sticks lay in the _____, and a block of wood with a woolly bit of sheepskin pulled tightly around it and nailed down."
snipe
fidget
trough
"They did not have a _____."
holler
slate
skeleton
"But Laura and Mary never whispered in school, and they always tried not to _____."