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WorksheetsWishtree Ch.1-10
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
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
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.
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
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.
Which genre is Wishtree? Check all that apply.
fiction
drama
fantasy
realistic fiction
poetry
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
Match each cause with its effect.
crows are fond of mimicking sounds
One crow was named Grouchy Cab Driver.
Red looks like a trash heap.
It is May.
The band practices in the garage.
Bongo sits on the roof.
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.
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.
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?
Organize the character traits to the correct character in the story.
hoarder
friendly
talkative
concerned
sad
lonely
Which excerpt from Wishtree best supports the belief that Samar is unhappy?
Soon after moving in, Samar began sneaking into the yard once her parents had fallen asleep.
Her silence was so complete, her gentleness so apparent, that the residents would crawl from the nest of thistledown and dandelion fluff to join her.
If this were a fairy tale, I would tell you there was something magical about Samar.
Her cheeks were damp.
Which statement from Wishtree contains a cause-effect relationship?
A wish. The first wish I'd seen in months.
I wasn't surprised she knew about the wishtree tradition. I'm kind of a local celebrity.
Samar reached up, gently pulled down my lowest branch, and tied the fabric in a loose knot.
"I wish," she whispered, "for a friend."
salt-and-pepper chickadees
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Long story. (I have lots of those, stored up the way a squirrel hoards acorns.)
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Sometimes I feel like an apartment complex...
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Grass cools the earth, but it also bickers with me over water.
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Her breath was a frosty veil.
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Animals compete for resources, just like humans.
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Nature is not always pretty or fair or kind.
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