Which question helps you learn a new word in a book?

• What is your favorite color?
• What does this word mean?
• How old are you?

You read a word you don't know: 'gigantic.' What should you do?

• Ask what gigantic means
• Skip the word and forget it
• Close the book

It is silly to ask what a word means.

Circle one:   True   False

The story says: 'It was freezing, so Sam wore a big coat.' What might freezing mean?

• Very cold
• Very hot
• Very funny

You read: 'The tiny mouse hid under the huge elephant.' The picture shows a very small mouse. What does tiny probably mean?

• Very loud
• Very fast
• Very small

In a story, a train zooms past every car and bike on the road. The book calls it a 'speedy' train. Which sentence best explains what speedy means?

• Speedy means really really slow
• Speedy means really really fast
• Speedy means really really noisy

Zara says, 'Chilly means the same as spicy.' Is that a good way to explain chilly?

• No, chilly should link to a word like cold
• Yes, spicy and chilly always mean the same
• Yes, that connects it to a known word

Leo reads 'shiver' but skips the sentence around it and never looks at the picture. What did Leo forget to do?

• Read the whole book
• Ask his teacher's name
• Use clues to guess the meaning