Harcourt Storytown Lesson 7 Comprehension BOOSTER s1

Harcourt Storytown Lesson 20 “Case of the Too-Hot …” Comprehension BOOSTER

Name______Monday Vocabulary Words Use your glossary in the back of your reading book to help you fill in the blanks below: ominous confound miserable gracious beams self-assurance monitor exposed installed looming

1. The dark clouds were ______, threatening our school picnic. 2. Those dark clouds looked ______. 3. A proud mother ______when her child does well in school. 4. The old woman ______when she sees her grandchildren coming to visit. 5. We use data notebooks to ______our progress on our grades. 6. The speaker stood tall and proud and displayed ______. 7. Justin tried to ______his sister by hiding in the closet. 8. Paige had a sunburn because her arms were ______to the sun all day. 9. New carpet had just been ______in the living room of our house. 10. It was very ______of you to help me with my homework.

Tuesday Read pages 525-527 and answer the following. Be sure to use complete sentences. 1. How can you tell that mysteries are an important part of Maggie’s daily life? ______

______2. What is one OPINION that Maggies expresses on page 527? ______

______3. Why does Maggie describe this night as MISERABLE? ______

______Read pages 528 and answer the following using complete sentences. 4. Which word would you use to describe Maggie? curious grateful helpless impatient WHY? ______

______Wednesday 5. On page 528, what is the MAIN problem in the story? ______

______6. What hint on page 528 does mom give Maggie and Noah that will help them solve the mystery?

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______Read pages 528-531 and answer the following using complete sentences. 7. What is the solution to the apple cider temperature mystery? ______8. Which action BEST shows that Noah knows a lot about science? ______

______9. How do Maggie and Noah solve the mystery? ______

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Thursday

Study these vocabulary words for the Reading Theme Test:

Graceful – If a person is graceful, he or she moves in a smooth way that is nice to look at.

Magnificent – Something magnificent is very beautiful and impressive.

Distressed – Someone who is distressed feels very sad and helpless.

Quest – A quest is a journey with a specific purpose.

Trampled - If you trampled something, you stepped on it very hard and damaged it.

Participate – If you participate in a game, you are involved in it.

Monitor – When you monitor something, you regularly check its progress.

Inadvertently – If you do something inadvertently, you do it without meaning to.

Miserable – A person who feels miserable feels uncomfortable or unhappy.

Intentions – Intentions are ideas about what a person means to do.