WorksheetsLighting lives
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
What was it like for Debbie to live in a home without electricity?
She had to read with a flashlight.
She had to read by candlelight.
She couldn't do anything in the dark.
How did Debbie's life change, when she was 10?
She moved into a home with electricity.
She went on a vacation.
She got a bike for her birthday.
What is solar power?
electricity that comes from the ground
electricity that comes from the sun
energy that comes from a bike
Solar panels turn the sun's energy into
gas
food
electricity
Why does solar power work well in Arizona?
because people have money
because Arizona has a lot of deserts
because there is a lot of sun in Arizona
Debby helps people who do not have
homes
electricity
food
How does Debby help families get solar panels?
She helps the family borrow money from a bank.
She buys them with her own money.
She helps them make the solar panels.
How much does it cost to use the sun's power?
$10 a month
There is no cost!
Debby pays for it.
What does Debby do with the Hopi and Navajo people?
She helps them with building their houses.
She takes them groceries.
She teaches them how solar power can help them.
People can use electricity to
water their grass or wash their car
heat their homes or turn on a light
grow plants and vegetables
What genre is the story Lighting Lives?
Fantasy
Realistic Fiction
Narrative Nonfiction
What is the story mostly about?
How hot it is in Arizona.
How Debby Tewa gives back to the community by helping people get solar power.
How nobody in New Mexico has electricity.
When Debby was your age, how was her life different from yours.
She went to school.
Her home had no electricity.
She liked to play outside.
What is solar power?
Electricity that comes from the sun.
Electricity that comes from nuclear energy.
Electricity that is very expensive.
Why would Solar Power work well in Arizona?
It is always cloudy.
The weather is nice.
There is a lot of sun there.
Debby believed that solar power would be:
hard for people to use.
too expensive.
a good solution for people with no electricity.
When Debby was 10, how did her life change?
She moved to a new house that had electricity.
She got a new brother.
She went to school.
Where does Debby travel?
Oklahoma
California
Arizona & New Mexico
What is the first thing that Debby does to get a family started with solar power?
Helps them borrow money from a bank.
Puts panels on their roof.
Puts light bulbs in their house.
What did Debby want to learn more about as she grew?
Animals
How to start a business.
solar power
Why did the author write this story?
To inform - and give you facts about how Debby Tewa helps others with solar power.
To persuade you to get solar power.
To entertain you with a fun story.
Where would you find a caption in this story?
In the title.
Underneath a photograph.
In the last paragraph of the story.
What does a caption tell you?
What the photograph is about.
How long the story will be.
What page the chapter starts on.
How do you know the story is narrative nonfiction?
It has made up characters.
It tells a story about a real person by a narrator.
It has rhyming words.
The genre for Lightning Lives is
expository text
fantasy
narrative nonfiction
fiction
Solar power is electricity that comes from:
the buildings
the people
the sun
lightning
What was the author's purpose for writing Lightning Lives?
to persuade
to inform
to entertain
Which vocabulary word means: from one side to the other
borrow
across
villages
countryside
Which vocabulary word means: to take and return later
ideas
insists
borrow
solution
Which vocabulary word means: the land outside of cities and towns
lonely
villages
borrow
countryside
Which vocabulary word means: thoughts
lonely
insists
borrow
ideas
Which vocabulary word means: to demand
lonely
insists
across
solution
Which vocabulary word means: far away from other places
solution
lonely
across
ideas
Which vocabulary word means: the answer to a problem
lonely
ideas
solution
insists
Which vocabulary word means: small groups of houses
insists
across
villages
borrow
