"The Scarlet Ibis" Context Clues

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "Doodle was both tired and frightened, and when he stepped from the skiff, he collapsed into the mud, sending an ARMADA of fiddler crabs rustling off into the marsh grass."

• Fleet

• Group

• Lot

• All answers work

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in all CAPS: "When we reached the landing, Doodle said he was too tired to swim, so we got into a SKIFF and floated down the creek with the tide.

• Small boat

• Plant

• Lily pad

• Car

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in all CAPS: "Even death did not MAR its grace, for if lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers..."

• Taint

• Spoil

• Ruin

• All choices are correct

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in all CAPS: "We danced together quite well until she came down on my big toe with her BROGANS, hurting me so badly I thought I was crippled for life."

• Shoes

• Clothes

• Hands

• Fingers

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in all CAPS: "I would gather wildflowers, wild violets, honeysuckle, yellow jasmine, snake flowers, and water lilies, and with wire grass, we'd weave them into necklaces and crowns. We'd BEDECK ourselves with our handiwork..."

• Hide

• Decorate

• Sing

• Run

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in all CAPS: "Finally, I could see that I was LICKED. Doodle was my brother and he was going to cling to me forever, no matter what I did..."

• Stuck

• Eating

• Tasty

• Senses

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in all CAPS: "To discourage his coming with me, I'd run with him across the ends of cotton rows and CAREEN him around corners on two wheels"

• Speed

• Jump

• Twirl

• Hop

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in all CAPS: "It was bad enough having an INVALID brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable..."

• little

• younger

• disabled

• strong

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in all CAPS: "The flower garden is PRIM, the house a gleaming white, and the pale fence across the yard stands straight and spruce."

• neat and proper

• messy and dirty

• old and dilapidated

• confused and unclear

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in all CAPS: "... the oriole nest in the elm was UNTENANTED and rocked bath and forth like an empty cradle"

• uninhabited

• busy

• full

• sloppy