Table of Contents - RLAC

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vocabulary
What’s in a Name?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Compound Words Dictionary Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Add ‘Em Up! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Words in Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Compound Crossword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Newsworthy Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Compound Word Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Reading Materials Match-Up . . . . . . . . . 35
Compound Collections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figurative Language Question Comprehension
Simple Similes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Why? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Simile Match-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 How? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Metaphors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Your Book or Your Head? . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Simile or Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Some or All? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Homophones Comprehending Directions
Hooray for Homophones . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Indoor Smores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Homophone Crossword Fun . . . . . . . . . 14 Sturdy Windsock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
What Does It Mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Multiplication Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Unscramble It. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mint Ice Cream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Follow That Recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Synonyms and Antonyms Categorization
Paired Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Sort It Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Super Sentences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Book Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Antonym Crossword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Sort the Words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Antonym Match-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Odd One Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Find the Synonyms and Antonyms . . . . 21 Balanced Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Following Directions Main Idea
Solve the Riddle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 TV Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Hidden Truck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Main Idea Tree Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 What’s the Topic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
What’s My Name? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Headlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The Main Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Analogies Predicting
What Tools Do We Need? . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Comic Capers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Synonym and Antonym Analogies . . . . 27 Picture Prediction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Grammar Analogies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Predict a Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Mixed Analogies Word Search. . . . . . . . 29 What Is That Web Site? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Get in Shape with Analogies . . . . . . . . . 30 What Will Happen? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Story Elements Problem and Solution
Good or Evil? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Match Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
What a Character! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 What’s the Problem? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Get Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 What’s Your Solution? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Which Setting?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 The Best Solution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Parts of a Story Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . 65
Point of View
Sequencing Whose Views? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
The Basic Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Everyone Has a Different View . . . . . . . 94
Order It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Who Said That? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
In What Order? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Put Yourself in Other People’s Shoes. . . 96
Story Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 First or Third Person?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Note Card Nightmare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Compare and Contrast
Context Clues Cool Careers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
New Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Finish the Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Common Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Figure It Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Layers of Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Context Clues Crossword . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
What Else Fits? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Making Connections
Many Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Cause and Effect Character Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Many Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Similar Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Many Possible Causes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Book-to-Self Connections . . . . . . . . . . 105
Causes and Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Book-to-World Connections. . . . . . . . . 106
Match ‘Em Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
If . . . Then . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Inferences
Deduction Puzzle: Working Pigs . . . . . 107
Fact and Opinion Deduction Puzzle: Forgetful Friends . . 108
Fact or Opinion? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Inference Ice Cream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Getting Personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Movie Mania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Unbelievable Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Mystery of the Missing Peanuts. . . . . . 111
You Be the Judge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Interesting Inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Summarizing Confusing Words
TV Guide Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Word Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Book Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Make the Right Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
So Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Which Is Correct? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
In or Out? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Definition Match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Introduction Reading Skills 3–4 • © 2004 Creative Teaching Press

Each book in the Power PracticeTM series contains over 100 ready-to-use activity
pages to provide students with skill practice. The fun activities can be used to
supplement and enhance what you are teaching in your classroom. Give an
activity page to students as independent class work, or send the pages home as
homework to reinforce skills taught in class. An answer key is provided for quick
reference.
The practical and creative activities in Reading Skills 3–4 give students the perfect
way to practice and reinforce over 20 reading skills including
• inferences
• drawing conclusions
• context clues
• sequencing
• predicting
• making connections
• following and comprehending directions
• main idea
• summarizing
• cause and effect
• point of view
Use these ready-to-go activities to “recharge” skill review and give students the
power to succeed!

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Simple Similes

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

A simile is a comparison of two unlike things, using the connecting words like or as.
Example: She was as sly as a fox.
She was clever and sneaky, so she was compared to a fox.

Underline the similes in the following sentences.

1 He was as funny as a comedian.
2 She was as hungry as a horse.
3 They were as wild as a pair of monkeys.
4 He acted like a frightened rabbit.
5 Isn’t that painting as colorful as a rainbow?
6 The players were as fast as an airplane.
7 His letter was as priceless as a treasure.
8 She was as smart as a teacher.
9 The experiment was as explosive as a volcano.
10 She was like an elephant the way she ate so many peanuts.
11 The baby was as cute as a button.
12 Joey thought the job was as easy as pie.
13 Kim felt as sick as a dog after she ate ten hot dogs.
14 Playing chess with my dad is like trying to outsmart a computer.
15 Billy was as stubborn as a mule.

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Simile Match-Up

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Write the letter of the word that best completes each simile.

1 ______ as fast as a. a fox Reading Skills 3–4 • © 2004 Creative Teaching Press
2 ______ as big as b. silk
3 ______ as smooth as c. a stereo
4 ______ as cold as d. a warrior
5 ______ as quiet as e. an ant
6 ______ as loud as f. a rock
7 ______ as tiny as g. a cheetah
8 ______ as light as h. a comic book
9 ______ as hard as i. ice
10 ______ as sly as j. a feather
11 ______ as funny as k. a sunny day
12 ______ as brave as l. an elephant
13 ______ as colorful as m. a rainbow
14 ______ as gloomy as n. a cloudy day
15 ______ as bright as o. a mouse

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Metaphors

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

A metaphor is a comparison that does not use connecting words.
Example: A smile is the doorway to happiness.
A smile is not really a doorway, but when you smile it makes you feel happier.

Underline the two items being compared in each sentence. Write what the sentence really means.

1 Your education is the gateway to success.
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22 Her life is a roller coaster of events.

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3 Dad’s beard was a prickly porcupine.

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4 His mother thought he was being a pain in the neck.

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5 She said, “My brother is such a clown.”

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6 Chris was a walking encyclopedia.

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7 The shy girl became a graceful swan when she danced.

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8 We would have had more to eat if Tyler hadn’t been such a hog.

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Simile or Metaphor

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Read each sentence. Circle S if the sentence is a simile or M if it contains a metaphor.

1 The sunburned girl was as red as a beet. SM

2 It’s an oven in this room! SM

3 She would not give in because, she was as stubborn as a mule. SM

4 His brain is a factory that always comes up with ideas. SM

5 Life is like a bowl of cherries. SM

6 His room was a pigsty. SM

7 The weightlifter was as strong as an ox. SM

8 It’s a jungle on the playground right now. SM

9 The sand is the carpet of the ocean. SM

10 Her skin was as smooth as silk. SM

11 The directions you gave us were crystal clear. SM

12 When it came to getting shots, he was such a chicken. SM

13 The criminal was as sly as a fox. SM

14 I spent two hours cleaning the house so it was SM
as clean as a whistle.

15 The leftover pizza was as hard as a stone. SM Reading Skills 3–4 • © 2004 Creative Teaching Press

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