Wishtree Ch.1-10

A good title for Chapters 1-5 could be _______.

• The Differences Between Crows and Trees

• Getting to Know the Wishtree

• Mother Nature

• Introverts and Extroverts

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What can be inferred about the Wishtree?

• It wants to change its name.

• It can't really make wishes come true.

• It has many friends.

• It only talks to animals.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

It's a miracle the fire department doesn't try to hose me down every autumn.

This passage contains ____.

• a pun

• an idiom

• a hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What did the hyperbole mean?

It's a miracle the fire department doesn't try to hose me down every autumn.

• The wishtree, Red, catches on fire every fall.

• Red's color is especially bright in the autumn, the color of fire.

• Red's branches are so full of red wishes, she looks like she is on fire.

• The fire department hoses her down so she won't catch on fire.

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which genre is Wishtree? Check all that apply.

• fiction

• drama

• fantasy

• realistic fiction

• poetry

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Chapters 1-5 of Wishtree are told from which point of view?

• 1st person through the animals' perspective.

• 1st person through the tree's perspective.

• 3rd person through an outside narrator

• 3rd person through the tree's perspective

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CCSS.RL.5.6

Match each cause with its effect.

• It is May.

• crows are fond of mimicking sounds

• Bongo sits on the roof.

• Red looks like a trash heap.

• One crow was named Grouchy Cab Driver.

• The band practices in the garage.

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

Crows and trees are different in all of the following ways EXCEPT ...

• Crows choose their names and trees are named by their type.

• Crows are either male or female and trees can sometimes be both.

• Crows are mobile and trees are planted in one location.

• Crows are optimistic and trees are pessimistic.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The conflict in this story is mostly the result of which event?

• Samar just moved to the neighborhood in January.

• Bongo kept gifts because she said you never knew when you might need a bribe.

• Red was home to an owl, baby opossums, and tiny raccoons.

• Fly talked to the mailman.

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CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

Which question does Chapters 6-10 NOT answer?

• Why did the frog break the rule and talk to a human?

• How do the animals use the hollows in trees?

• Why do the animals feel a connection to Samar?

• Why is Samar sad?

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1