The Lightning Thief Ch. 1-4

Fill in the blank: “What you learn from me,” he said, “is ____________important. I expect you to treat it as such. I will accept only the best from you, Percy Jackson.”

• hastily

• vitally

• wispy

• cloven

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Fill in the blank: He must’ve been held back several grades, because he was the only sixth grader with acne and the start of a ________________ beard on his chin.

• wispy

• pulverize

• vaporize

• hastily

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

But Mr. Brunner expected me to be as good as everybody else, despite the fact that I have _________________ and attention deficit disorder and I had never made above a C- in my life.

• solstice

• dyslexia

• squall

• sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

He flailed, clawing at his chest, then began to _________________—not like my mother, in a flash of golden light, but like crumbling sand, blown away in chunks by the wind, the same way Mrs. Dodds had burst apart.

• disintegrate

• pulverize

• shrivel

• solstice

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

In a flash of lightning, through the mud-spattered rear windshield, I saw a figure ______________ toward us on the shoulder of the road. The sight of it made my skin crawl.

• hastily

• shriveled

• cloven

• lumbering

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Because where his feet should be, there were no feet. There were ______________ hooves.

• shriveled

• pulverized

• cloven

• hastily

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I told her she was ________________ me, and to lay off and all that, but secretly, I was really, really glad to see her.

• smothering

• pulverizing

• wispy

• vaporizing

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

His tiny brain was probably trying to detect _________________ in my statement.

• solstice

• sarcasm

• dyslexia

• squall

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

We ________________ onto a narrower road, racing past darkened farmhouses and wooded hills and PICK YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES signs on white picket fences.

• squalled

• disintegrated

• vaporized

• swerved

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

It’s weird being alone with a teacher, especially Mrs. Dodds. Something about the way she looked at the frieze, as if she wanted to ________________ it.

• pulverize

• squall

• shrivel

• smother

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4