It's Our Garden Vocab

What is the genre of the text?

• Fantasy

• Fiction

• Informational Text

• Sci-Fi

A shady passageway made of vines or branches is a(n) _______________.

• transplant

• mulch

• layout

• arbor

What is a compost?

• A bouquet of blooming flowers.

• A bin made up of soil, dead plants, and food scraps.

• A waffle of seedlings.

• The entrance to the garden.

Who is the author of the text It's Our Garden?

• Mrs. McCarthy

• The Narrator

• Miss Sue

• George Ancona

Transplant means...

• A drawing or plan that shows where something is or will be.

• Wood chips or straw placed around plants to protect them.

• To take something from the place it was growing and plant it in a new place.

• A shady passageway made of vines or branches.

The author uses which text structure to present the information in the test?

• Cause and Effect: what happens and how it happened.

• Sequence: time order words

• Problem and Solution: show a problem and how it is solved

• Compare and Contrast: how things are alike and how they are different.

The author writes, "By now, the flowers are blooming and the beds are green. What does the word blooming mean?

• When the flowers are out and open.

• Grains or seeds of plants.

• The garden beds are outside.

• Ready for harvest.

________ are the grains or seeds of plants such as corn or wheat.

• adobe

• kernels

• flowers

• blooms

Fill in the blank:

I like to create a(n) ___________ before beginning my garden.

• arbor

• compost

• layout

• adobe

Fill in the blank:

I always add ___________ around my plants to protect them.

• arbor

• horno

• adobe

• mulch