The School Story

Replace the bolded words with spelling words: 1. Mr. Brown asked his students to make corrections to their original copies of their stories.

• editorial; manuscripts

• revisions; manuscripts

• editorial; mazes

• revisions; mazes

Replace the bolded word with a spelling word: Please do not reveal Superman's secret identity to anyone else.

• pressure

• muted

• disclose

• publish

Replace the bolded word with a spelling word: “Thank you very much for spilling coffee all over my homework,” Tim said to his Mom with a sarcastic smile.

• editorial

• muted

• wry

• literary

Replace the bolded word with a spelling word: He wore a faded green sweater.

• muted

• literary

• wry

• editorial

Replace the bolded word with a spelling word: The students cried and complained, because they wanted to force their teacher to cancel the spelling quiz.

• publishing

• disclose

• maze

• pressure

Fill in the blank: Larry was an evil platypus. He was angry that the ________________ magazine did not publish any stories about platypuses.

• editorial

• literary

• muted

• maze

Larry sent a story about his life to the magazine, but the _______________ staff said the story did not make sense. They said the grammar was so bad, it would take them years to fix it.

• literary

• editorial

• wry

• pressure

“We can’t fix this story,” they told Larry. “The spelling is terrible. You have no punctuation. It needs too many __________________.”

• revisions

• mazes

• pressures

• manuscripts

“Publish my story, or you’ll be sorry!” warned Larry.

“You can’t _________________ us,” said the staff. “Only we can decide which stories we will publish.”

• disclose

• literary

• pressure

• manuscript

Larry wanted revenge. He decided to kidnap the magazine’s staff and trap them in a confusing ______________. The staff tried to find their way home, but never did. They are still there.

• pressure

• publishing

• literary

• maze