Grammar Spiral 2/15

Read and answer the task card.

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• b

• c

• d

Read and answer the task card.

• a

• b

• c

• d

Toe is to Foot as Finger is to _________

• hand

• thumb

• arm

• elbow

Sky is to Blue as Lemon is to _________

• yellow

• green

• white

• spotted

Man is to Boy as Cat is to ___________.

• cuddly

• soft

• girl

• kitten

Match the following idioms with its meaning.

• Good luck

• Out on a limb

• Suddenly

• Drop of a hat

• Taking a rick

• Bone to pick

• Not speaking

• Cat got your tongue?

• Issue to work out

• Break a leg

Reorder the mixed-up sentences below in the correct order (beginning to end).

• Everything seemed to be going wrong for Mary today.

• She missed the bus because she spilled her cereal all over her clothes and had to change them.

• During this morning's music class, her teacher thought she was talking during instruction and gave her a detention.

• Her mom dropped her off at school, but in her rush to get to the entrance, she tripped and fell.

• At noon, Mary discovered that she had forgotten her lunch at home.

Reorder the mixed-up sentences below in the correct order (beginning to end).

• Then, at recess after lunch her two best friends started ignoring her.

• When the bell finally rang at the end of the day, Mary had to serve her detention.

• After recess, her teacher surprised the class with a pop quiz. Mary is pretty sure she missed all the questions.

• Dinner would have been the point of the day... if her mother wouldn't have burned it.

• At two o'clock, science class turned into a disaster when Mary's experiment didn't work.

My grocery cart knocked into the aisle and the cans came garushing down.

Using context clues, infer the meaning of the underlined word.

• sharp

• amazement

• rolls

• crashing

After a long day playing outside, the little boy felt zentle.

Using context clues, infer the meaning of the underlined word.

• excited

• tired

• happy

• sad