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Way With Words
FOR SAMPLE ONLY
A. Find words from the passage which mean the following.

1) a woman with a fish tail ___________
2) picky and choosy about food ___________
3) crushed to make soft ___________
4) eating quickly ___________
5) very small branch of trees or bush ___________

B. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the story.

1) Charlie’s little sister’s name is ___________ .
2) Lola does not eat many things. She is a ___________eater.
3) Lola thinks that carrots are for ___________ .
4) Charlie said that the green peas are the green drops from _______ .
5) Charlie pretends that green drops are very ___________ .

C. If you were to rebrand some of the vegetables, what names
would you give to these vegetables?
Examples: Tomatoes: moonsquirters
Broccoli: Miniature tree
1) mushrooms : _____________ 5) cauliflower : _____________
2) cabbage: _____________ 6) peas: _____________
3) carrots: _____________ 7) radish: _____________

4) potatoes: _____________ 8) pumpkin: _____________

Checking Understanding

A. Write True or False.
1) The story takes place in Charlie and Lola’s house at dinner time.
2) Charlie told Lola that tomatoes were really potato chips from Jupiter.

3) Mashed potatoes are white and fluffy like a sky.
4) Fish comes from the ocean, so fish sticks are little nibbles from the
ocean.
5) Lola named tomatoes as moonsquirters.

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