It was gratifying to see how she acted toward her grandmother because her grandmother was always kind to her.

He cut the paper precisely on the line, and it fit perfectly in the grooves of the picture frame.

The boy tried to justify his actions to his mother by explaining the reasons why he did what he did.

We got a glimpse of the boat as it zipped across the lake.

What does glimpse mean?

Albert did not enjoy his job as a dishwasher. It was monotonous work, doing the same thing over and over

Fran knocked on the classroom’s door. She pressed her ear to the door so she could hear voices inside. There was no sound on the other side of the door. She shrugged her shoulders. She guessed that the room was vacant and walked to the classroom next door.

In this passage, the word vacant means

I didn’t want anyone to see the red scratches on my arm. I had fallen out of a tree, and the branches cut my arm in several places. I tried to conceal my injuries by wearing a long-sleeved sweater. It was a hard week to wear a sweater. It was almost 90 degrees each day.

In this passage, the word conceal means

Isabelle grabbed the pile of clothes that were sitting on her pool-side lounge chair. She giggled as she held them in her arms and jumped into the pool. Her brother was getting out of the pool and saw Isabelle dunking his clothes in the water.

"What are you doing?" he yelled over Isabelle's laughing fits. He yanked his clothes from her grasp and tried to wring the water out of them. When he untwisted his clothes, they were a little drier, but very wrinkled. He put his clothes back on the chair. Then, he grabbed Isabelle's towel and tossed it into the pool.

In paragraph 2, the word wring means to

My cousin and I have the same taste in clothes and wear the same size. Sometimes, we swap clothes. I’ll give her my blue dress, and she’ll let me wear her pink sweater. Our mothers don’t mind that we share clothes. When they were young, they would wear each other’s clothes, too.

In the paragraph above, the word swap means

The school decided to punish hundreds of students for breaking the dress code. The students didn’t get a warning. Instead, they were forced to go home. The parents were outraged at the decision. Many of them had to leave work to go pick up their kids. They were mad that the school did not explain the rules of the dress code better.

In this paragraph, what does the word outraged mean?

Choose the correct word!

The action or fact of openly admitting to something.

Choose the correct word!

Make a soft sucking sound such as that made by walking heavily through mud.

It is the type of literature that is based on researched facts such as essay and text books.

It is a literary work in which certain intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas.

The "Telephone Conversation" written by Wole Soyinka is an example of __________.

Choose the correct word!

Greatly astonish or amaze.

Information a reader can get from the reading that helps show what a word or group of words means.

Notable Literary Genres of African Writers

Exploration and colonization of Africa by the Europeans began in the _____ century.

_______ is known to the world as the motherland because it is the second largest continent in the world.

A Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

His first novel Things Fall Apart, often considered his masterpiece.

He is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.

__________ was a French West African poet known for his contribution to the Négritude literary movement.

What is the national event that happened in the story "The Voter"?