Precise Word Choice

What is the group of four people who live together in this community know as?

• family unit
• parental unit
• family
• roomates

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Jonas and his family unit lived in a house,but did not call it that.  What did they refer to it as?

• cave
• apartment
• dwelling
• pad

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CCSS.L.2.3A

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.SL.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2E

CCSS.W.7.1D

What was Lilly's stuffed animal known as?

• hippo
• crocodile
• comfort object
• giraffe

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CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What was the name of the dwelling where Fiona was assigned?

• House of the Old
• Old Folks home
• Nursing center
• Assisted Living Center

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Asher was best known for...

• playing games
• public humiliation
• incorrect word choice
• being Jonas's best friend

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What does the community really mean when it uses the word "release?"

• Heaven
• Going to elsewhere
• Death
• Letting balloons go

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is "feelings" better known as?

• images
• ideas
•  emotions

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Lily described the children from another community as animals.  What does this mean?

• rude
• fiesty
• slow
• uneducated or clumsy

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Jonas's dad was a Nurturer.  What did that mean?

• loving person
• dad
• a boo-boo kisser
• worker with new babies

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CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Why does Lois Lowry capitalize words that don't normally need capitalization?

• She is a lazy writer.
• She doesn't know the rules.
• To give emphasis to a word
• To show the difference in our word vs there's.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6