Thunder Cake Vocabulary

A flash or stroke

• cooed

• samovar

• bolt

• penned

The line where the sky and earth seem to meet is called the...

• Horizon

• Reexamine

• Conflict

• Clap

A samavor is a

• tub of chocolate cake

• a conflict

• to talk happily

• a container for Russian tea

Clap, in the story Thunder Cake, means...

• a deep rolling sound

• to write

• to bang hands together

• a loud, sudden sound

The events that make up a story is called the...

• answer

• plot

• solution

• inference

A flash of light in the sky is...

• shooting stars

• lightning

• the moon

• the sun

Pick the best word to fit the sentence:

Patricia Polacco __________________ over 115 books for children.

• cooed

• examined

• penned

• rumbled

Pick the best word to fit in the sentence:

We needed to _______________________ our answer choices to make sure we had the correct one.

• reexamine

• resolution

• repeat

• rumbled

Talked softly and fondly

• crowed

• clapped

• cooed

• corrected

The rumbling sound that follows lightning

• storm clouds

• thunder

• hail

• rain storm