Open Court:
Please read the story, then answer these questions.
Comprehension Study Questions - The Keeping Quilt
Please go back to the story to answer these.
1) List the items that were used to make the quilt.
2) Where did each item come from?
3) What was used to make the border of the quilt?
4) What was the reason for making the quilt?
5) Who made the quilt?
6) What does the quilt have to do with Anna's family's past?
7) In the story the quilt gets passed along to different people. Who does it get passed along to?
8) What is the reason for the salt in the bouquets (boo-kays)?
9) What are the newborn babies wrapped in? Why are they wrapped in it?
10) Complete the sentence: When Patricia was a little girl, she used the quilt as a ______________.
11) How does the keeping quilt help keep family memories?
12) What kinds of customs does your family have? Remember, customs are things that everyone in the family practices, like taking off shoes, or offering tea to guests, or covering their head.
VOCABULARY - one word is used twice.
A) The vegetables had a lot of ______________ because the lady added salt, pepper, and chillies.
B) The gentleman offered his _______________ to the lady, when she started crying.
C) You don't have to water that fake plant, because it's _____________________.
D) The bride accidentally dropped the __________________ of flowers on the floor.
E) The horses in downtown Sacramento are always ________a carriage full of people down the street.
F) The student had an ________________ eye, which he took out right before he went to sleep.
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