<p>Harcourt Storytown Lesson 20 “Case of the Too-Hot …” Comprehension BOOSTER</p><p>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</p><p>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.</p><p>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? ______</p><p>______2. What is one OPINION that Maggies expresses on page 527? ______</p><p>______3. Why does Maggie describe this night as MISERABLE? ______</p><p>______Read pages 528 and answer the following using complete sentences. 4. Which word would you use to describe Maggie? curious grateful helpless impatient WHY? ______</p><p>______Wednesday 5. On page 528, what is the MAIN problem in the story? ______</p><p>______6. What hint on page 528 does mom give Maggie and Noah that will help them solve the mystery?</p><p>______</p><p>______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? ______</p><p>______9. How do Maggie and Noah solve the mystery? ______</p><p>______</p><p>Thursday</p><p>Study these vocabulary words for the Reading Theme Test:</p><p>Graceful – If a person is graceful, he or she moves in a smooth way that is nice to look at.</p><p>Magnificent – Something magnificent is very beautiful and impressive.</p><p>Distressed – Someone who is distressed feels very sad and helpless.</p><p>Quest – A quest is a journey with a specific purpose.</p><p>Trampled - If you trampled something, you stepped on it very hard and damaged it.</p><p>Participate – If you participate in a game, you are involved in it.</p><p>Monitor – When you monitor something, you regularly check its progress.</p><p>Inadvertently – If you do something inadvertently, you do it without meaning to.</p><p>Miserable – A person who feels miserable feels uncomfortable or unhappy.</p><p>Intentions – Intentions are ideas about what a person means to do.</p>