“The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket”
Vocabulary
Part I directions: Copy these words, parts of speech and definitions into your
spiral for the second short story we will read.
1. Embankment – n. a man-made elevated area of land used to prevent flooding
2. loiter – v. to stand or wait idly
3. emanate – v. to emit or radiate from a source
4. sheepish – adj. showing embarrassment
5. discernible – adj. recognized or noticeable
Part II directions: In your spiral, directly under the new vocabulary information,
create working COMPLEX sentences that correctly utilize the vocabulary word.
Remember that a COMPLEX sentence has both an independent and a dependent
clause. If the dependent clause comes first, you must separate the information with
a comma, but if the independent information comes first, you do not need the
punctuation to separate the two parts of the sentence.
FINALLY, pick up five more cards. This time you will need five BLUE cards since
these words are from a completely different story. On the front of each card write
the vocabulary word, and on the back you need to create a visual to remember
meaning WITHOUT using any words or phrases!!