HMH Kitoto Comprehension

What is a folktale?

• a realistic story

• a fictional story

• an example of nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

A folktale is passed down orally from one generation to another and shares a theme or lesson about life.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

What is the Plot of a story?

• the big idea or lesson

• the details - what's happening in the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

What is Kitoto's conflict?

• he is lost and needs to find his way home

• he is hungry and afraid of the hawk

• he is in search of the elephants to free them

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

What order does Kitoto approach the objects of nature?

• sun, wind, river, mountain

• mountain, wind, sun, river

• river, mountain, wind, sun

• river, sun, wind, mountain

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

Why does Kitoto think the river is the most powerful being?

• it swept away huge trees and rocks

• it was moving fast and quick

• it is deep and wide

• it waved good morning to him

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

Why did the sun say the wind was the most powerful?

• she blows cool breezes

• she gathers the clouds and hides the Savannah

• she makes the tree limbs dance

• she sweeps away trees and rocks

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

Why does the wind think that the mountain is the most powerful?

• it is tall in height

• she can not move him

• it takes up so much land space

• she moves him from side to side

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.6

What two things are being compared in the following sentences?

Kitoto peered at the Savannah, small as a nut, far, far below, and felt very grand indeed.

• savannah and a nut

• Kitoto and a nut

• Small and savannah

• Kitoto and a savannah

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.8

CCSS.RL.3.1

What does the following simile help the reader visualize?

Kitoto peered at the Savannah, small as a nut, far, far below, and felt very grand indeed.

• how hungry Kitoto is

• how high in the sky the mouse is

• how powerful the wind is

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.4