4th Grade Reading Basic Set 8

Read the passage.
She came out pulling
at her gloves, face bright
with rouge. I smiled.
What is the mood of feeling of the poem?

Read the paragraph.
When I first got up this morning, I knew it was going to be a terrible day. To begin with, my alarm clock didn’t work, and there wasn’t any hot water for my shower. Then, I went downstairs to find out I didn’t have time for breakfast, because the school bus was already stopped in from of my house.
How is this paragraph organized?

Read the passage.
    Dear Terry,
Thanks for letting me borrow your book. I enjoyed reading it.
Your friend,
Carrie
What type of writing is this?

Read the passage.
Frankly, I wasn’t too crazy about visiting a nursing home. They reminded me of hospitals, and hospitals turn me off. I mean, the smell of ether makes me nauseous, and I feel faint at the sight of blood. And as I approached Lawnrest—which is a terrible, cemetery kind of name, to begin with—I was sorry I hadn’t avoided the trip. Then I felt guilty about it. I’m loaded with guilt complexes. Like driving like a madman after promising my father to be careful. Like sitting in the parking lot, looking at the nursing home with dread and thinking how I’d rather be with Cindy. Then I thought of all the Christmas and birthday gifts my grandmother had given me and I got out of the car, guilty as usual.
This passage is ________________.

Read the passage.
Now, all the Crocketts were big, but Davy was big even for a Crockett. He weighed two hundred pounds, fourteen ounces, and he was as frisky as a wildcat. His ma and his Aunt Ketinah stood over Davy, trying to get him to sleep.
Which is NOT true to Davy Crockett?

Read the passage.
It had a green and yellow tint of color with just a hint of red at the base. The tulip was just beginning to sprout and had three tiny green leaves surrounding its bloom. The soil was built up in a mound, as if to protect the delicate blossom.
What type of writing is this?

Read the poem.
The fox ran swiftly
He was after his dinner
Now he is sleepy.
This poem is an example of:

Read the passage.
Today, while cooking oatmeal she is Madame Butterfly until she sighs and points the wooden spoon at me. I could’ve been somebody, you know? Esperanza, you go to school and study hard. That Madame Butterfly was a fool. She stirs the oatmeal. Look at my comadres. She means Izaura whose husband left and Yolanda whose husband is dead. Got to take care all your own, she says shaking her head.
The underlined sentence is a:

Read the passage.
Outside,
A few cars hissing past,
Fog hanging like old
Coats between the trees.
I took my girl’s hand
In mine for two blocks,
Then released it to let
Her unwrap the chocolate.
I peeled my orange
That was so bright against
The gray of December
That, from some distance,
Someone might have thought
I was making a fire in my hands.
The underlined sentence is a an example of _________.

Read the passage.
Charles has football practice at the same time as tryouts for the school play. He wants to do both.
What should he do?

Read the passage.
They stepped out of the cabin. Camp had been fun, but it was now over. They had loved swimming, hiking, and horseback riding.
What is the setting?

Read the passage.
We couldn’t wait for summer vacation to start! It was the last day of school, and we were so excited to get out and start the games and fun of summer. My personal favorite thing about summer is getting to sleep in late and stay the night at my friends’ houses for parties and sleepovers. I love school, but I always look forward to summer!
The theme of this story is _______________.

Read the passage.
   “The biographer of Davy Crockett is immediately confronted with a problem: Which Davy Crockett shall he write about? For if there ever was a man of multiple identity, that man was Davy Crockett.
First of all there was—or at least there exists some fairly reliable evidence to that effect— the flesh-and-blood Crockett, the frontiersman and hunter of early Tennessee. There was the historical Crockett, with his heroic exploits at the Alamo duly recorded in history. There was the political Crockett, a figure alternately built up and deflated by the Jacksonites and anti-Jacksonites . . . And then there was the mythical Crockett, the Crockett of legend and folksay, of all the tall takes and fireside yearns and almanac stories—the veritable yaller blossom of the forest, half horse, half alligator, with a little touch of snapping turtle, the ring-tailed roarer who could bring a coon out of a tree, ride a streak of lightning, wade the Mississippi, and come down off the Peak o’ Day with a piece of sunrise in his pocket.
It was to this last Crockett, in the grand American tradition of Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Old Stormalong, and Pecos Bill, that I turned as being obviously the most credible, authentic, significant, and true.
Which of these describes the mythical Davy Crockett?

Jerry had to work hard to finish mowing the lawn.
What is the opposite of work?

We were playing in the house when Mother was gone shopping. A lamp was accidentally broken. Mother was very angry when she saw what had happened.
Choose a word that means the same as angry.

Sara has a new red velvet bonnet to wear on her head in the Christmas program.
The word bonnet probably means:

Juan was very blue when his puppy was missing.
In this sentence, the word blue means:

The class was surprised when their teacher told them to “zip it up” when they
were too noisy.
What does “zip it up” mean in this sentence?