Island of the Blue Dolphins Vocabulary

The distance covered in a series of single steps, often used as a measure of length or distance

The long, narrow body connected to the head of an arrow or spear

Drooping, sagging, wilted, lacking energy

Lucky; having to do with a good event or situation; receiving something good

Bringing things or people together as a group; collecting

Ideas and details in a text that can be used to support an inference

An educated guess using prior knowledge (schema), text evidence, and reasoning

Looking at something thoroughly and closely

The purple rock that hides the buried treasure is ten ______ away from the large tree.

She fitted the point of the arrow to its wooden _______.