Number the Stars Ch 11-12: Cloze Sentences

Mama, Annemarie, and the Rosens sat in silence. There was a slight

noisy__________outside the door, and Mama went quickly to look out. In a

moment she was back.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

But Annemarie had often walked to town and back

that way, and she remembered the turns, the twisted trees whose ____________

roots pushed the earth now and then into knotted clumps, and the thick

bushes that often flowered in early summer.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Together they buttoned the heart-shaped buttons—

how Kirsti loved that sweater, with its heart buttons!—until the tiny child

was completely ______ in the warm red wool.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Light woke her. But it was not really morning, not yet. It was only the

first hint of a slightly lightening sky: a light____________at the edge of the

meadow, a sign that far away somewhere, to the east where Sweden still

slept, morning would be coming soon.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

She remembered Ellen in the school play, moving ______ across the stage, her gestures sure, her voice clear.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The mother tightened her arms around the baby and looked up at Peter,

_________. "Please, no," she said. "She always sleeps all night. Please, she

doesn't need it, I promise. She won't cry."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Peter kissed Mama wordlessly. Then he wished the Rosens _____,

and he led the others through the door.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The light outside was still very ____, as if nearly dark.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Mama must have been _____; she had been up all night, had made the dangerous journey to the boat, and returned through the dark woods, wanting only to sleep.

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Her eyelids ______but she didn't wake.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4