Prairie Fire Reading Comprehension Questions

What is a synonym for guard?

• protect
• feelings
• soil
• property

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5C

What does the word thrust mean in this sentence? Sue thrust her hand into the pond to get the fish.

• drench
• use unwisely
• push hard
• watch over

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What vocabulary word means a hard time walking?

• sod
• homestead
• trudged
• parched

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Who are the characters in the story?

• Maud the horse
• Percy
• his dad
• his mother
• the oxen

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.3

What is the setting of the story?

• December in the North Pole
• The Baseball Field
• November on the homestead
• October on the Homestead

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

How did Percy feel when he saw the geese?

• mad
• scared
• peaceful
• nervous

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.3

What does it mean when father said he would "unyoke the oxen"?

• feed the oxen eggs
• drive the oxen to the barn
• let the oxen loose to the fire
• unhook the oxen

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.4

Why wasn't father worried about Old Jim and Frank?

• He did not care about them.
• He did not think he had enough time to get there.
• He thought that they had enough time to get there
• They were too old to worry about.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.3

How did the prairie fire get started?

• The grass was either hit by lightning or a settlers camp fire got loose.
• Percy set it on fire with a match.
• Mother and Father forgot to put on the camp fire.
• There was no fire.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.3

Where did the water come from that Percy used to fight the fire?

• It rained.
• Percy carried a pale of water to the fire.
• It was rain that came from a plane.
• It was rain water that came out of the rain barrel

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.1