Rainforest Story Flashcard

Front

Read this sentence with personification from paragraph 1. “The generous trees provided Spider Monkey with lots of delicious fruit.” Select the meaning of this phrase, as used in the passage.

Back

The trees gave monkey plenty of fruit.

Front

How is the rainforest setting important to the story?

Back

The rainforest provides a setting where the trees are first abundant, or full of fruit, and then later the fruit is hard to find because the wind has knocked the fruit down off of the branches.

Front

What is the theme of the passage?

Back

Be prepared for future events.

Front

Fill in the bubble before one sentence from the passage that supports the answer in Part A: “Spider Monkey’s mouth hung open, speechless, for he was not expecting this from his friend.”, Slowly, he turned to walk away from Marmoset., As he swung through the trees, in searching for food, he thought of Marmoset’s words., ‘Maybe,’ he thought, ‘I should save at least one bite for every bite I eat.’” (paragraph 11)

Back

‘Maybe,’ he thought, ‘I should save at least one bite for every bite I eat.’” (paragraph 11)

Front

What does the word plummeted mean as used in the passage? "Not long after this, Marmoset and Spider Monkey noticed the fruit drooping on the branches, until, one day, great numbers of fruit fell off the branches and plummeted to the ground."

Back

dropped