Boxes of Blooms Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary

A made-up story that could really happen

• Realistic Fiction

• Informational Text

• Poem

shaded places away from sun

• meeting

• shadows

• scurry

What makes up the plot of the story?

• characters

• Beginning, middle, and end

• setting

When you are frowning you fell -

• unhappy

• joyful

• mad

Flowers bring me -

• sadness

• joy

• anger

Choose the word that shows how Luis feels as he looks out of the window at the beginning of the story.

• frowning

• shadows

• smiles

Which word is the synonym of " soil"?

• dirt

• box

• bag

What about this story could happen in real life?

• People could get together to help butterflies.

• Butterflies could get help from other insects.

• Butterflies held a meeting.

How is the building different at the end of the story than it was at the beginning?

• In the beginning, the building was home to beautiful butterflies.

• In the beginning, the building was bland. At the end, the building was home to beautiful butterflies.

• Nothing is different between the beginning and the end of the story.