The Sweet Story of Candy Land

What is this article mostly about? [main idea/detail]

• how to make your own board game

• how Eleanor Abbott invented the game Candy Land

• why kids sometimes had to stay at home in the 1940s and 1950s

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Where did Eleanor first come up with the idea for Candy Land? [key details]

• at the beach

• at school

• in the hospital

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Which of these tells what a sketch is? [vocabulary]

• Eleanor made a drawing of her game idea.

• Eleanor helped the kids have fun.

• The kids loved to play Candy Land.

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Look at the photo at the bottom of page 3.

What does the caption tell you? [nonfiction text features]

• Eleanor Abbott visits the hospital.

• Kids are playing Candy Land.

• Kids on a baseball team visit polio patients in the hospital.

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What happened after Eleanor took her game to the Milton Bradley game company?

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• The company gave the game a title.

• The company gave the game to kids in the hospital.

• The company gave the game a slogan.

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