248 Lesson Activities

By Colleen Pauley

Categorize

Options (12)

difference

resemblance

relevance

falsehood

livelihood

brotherhood

cartoonline

unstatesmanlike

powderlike

warmth

width

tenth

Sort the following words based on their use of the suffixes ‑ance/‑ence, ‑hood, ‑like, and ‑th.

-ance/‑ence

-hood

-like

-th

Multiple Choice

What dangers does Jimmy Tom face during his dive in this section of the reading?

• A whale swims by and traps Jimmy in a crevice so he almost drowns.

• A conger eel bites him, and while Jimmy waits for his chance to pull away, he nearly drowns from being underwater too long.

• A hammerhead shark bites Jimmy's foot.

Match

Match the line from the text to the type of figurative language it uses.

• "swimming as he had never swum before, yet seeming to himself...to move slow as the hourhand of a clock"

• "the pure rounded whorls of this one were set off with wide, frilled varices, each ending in a point above, the whole forming a perfect crown of snow and crystal"

• "he still had nearly three minutes before the water would exact her toll of oxygen from him"

simile

metaphor

personification

• simile

• metaphor

• personification