Vocabulary activity for Chapter 25-26 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.
"Pa said the weather was perfect for _____ wheat"
smudging
pullet
ripening
"The _____ whirring of their wings filled the whole air and they hit the ground and the house with the noise of a hailstorm."
rasping
idling
tasseling
"Ma lighted pile after pile. Laura watched till a _____ of smoke hid the field and Ma and Pa and the wagon."
furrow
smudge
scalding
"The two hens and their gawky _____ were eating grasshoppers with all their might."
pullets
pods
smolders
"The long leaves were eaten off the cornstalks, and the _____, and the ears of young corn in their green husks fell covered with grasshoppers."
furrows
tassels
rasps
"He stirred up the _____ fires and thick smoke hid him again."
smoldering
rasping
smoldering
"Then Laura saw him go to the plow and lift it out of the _____."
smudge
furrow
idle
"He went, driving Sam and David toward the stable with the _____ plow."
brisk
pullet
idle
"'That's one of 'em, a _____ of grasshopper eggs.'"
ripen
pod
tassel
"Ma _____ a pan of sour milk and made pretty white balls of cottage cheese."
idled
smoldered
scalded
"She went _____ into the house with Carrie, while Laura and Mary ran to let Spot out of the stable and drive her toward the creek."