Vocabulary activity for Chapter 23-24 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.
"Deep down inside her Laura felt _____ when she thought of Nellie dancing on the creek bank."
urged
admired
satisfied
"'I met the home _____, Reverend Alden, and he wanted us to be sure to come.'"
missionary
squiggle
cravat
"'Oh, Charles,' Ma _____, 'we haven't been to church for so long!'"
hymned
exclaimed
satisfied
"And the skirt was pulled back and lifted up to puffs and _____ behind."
shirrings
scrooges
cravats
"She _____ and looked down her own back."
bulrushed
tiresomed
scrooged
"'Don't point, Laura,' said Ma. 'It's a _____.'"
belfry
bulrush
shirring
"His clothes were black and his big _____ was black and his hair and the beard that went around his face were dark."
hymn
cravat
missionary
"She knew all about Moses in the _____."
bulrushes
urges
squiggles
"'Try,' Mrs. Tower _____ her."
exclaimed
urged
belfried
"Miserable _____ sent up Laura's backbone and the insides of her ears crinkled."
admires
scrooges
squiggles
"She looked at each of her finger nails and _____ how the fingers of her hands would it together."
tiresomed
admired
satisfied
"There was nobody to pitch the _____ with a tuning-fork."
missionary
satisfy
hymn
"There were no more long, dull, _____ Sundays, because there was always Sunday school to go to, and to talk about afterward."