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2.2-4 U7

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  • He’s _____, but his eyes are brimming over with _____ and he and Mom are holding hands across the table.
    grinning/tears
  • Dad is tired from driving his big truck all through the night.
    T
  • Dad has stopped to pick wildflowers for Mom. They’re ______ and she runs to put them in water.
    wilting
  • She finishes Popcorn, which takes quite a while, gives the book back to me and _____ all over her face.
    beams
  • Sam and Anna hang green and red streamers in the living room.
    F
  • “The ______ may pass along with the years.”
    chance
  • “It’s much smarter if you learn to read when you’re” she tells Sam _____."
    sternly
  • Grandma keeps pretending she doesn’t remember dad’s birthday dinner.
    T
  • Anna giggles because she finds Grandma funny.
    F
  • Then Grandma _______ in my direction and I go for the big bag and drag it across to the table.
    shoots a glance
  • Anna is Sam’s grandmother.
    F
  • I _____ Grandma’s hand and she stands and begins to read.
    squeeze
  • I hold it, _______ I can still feel the desert sun hot inside it.
    imagining
  • Dad bought roses from the store for mom.
    F
  • Grandma raises her _______ as if she’d forgotten all about that.
    eyebrows
  • Anna makes breath pictures while she waits for mother.
    F
  • She’s hurrying, her big, cloth bag _______ her legs.
    bumping against
  • Grandma didn’t know how to read before Anna taught her.
    T
  • My heart’s beating awfully fast as I _____ the bag and give the first book to Grandma.
    unzip
  • He has brought Sam a basketball magazine and me a pebble, smooth and speckled as an egg, for my rock ________ .
    collection
  • Grandma reads and acts out The Easter Pig. And Velveteen Rabbit.
    T
  • Anna and Grandma read stories together for hours when Grandma visits.
    T
  • “Oh yes, the birthday,” Grandma says ______, as if she’d forgotten again.
    vaguely
  • Dad was tearing up because his mom can finally read.
    F
  • On Wednesday night Sam, Anna, and Grandma have hotdogs for dinner.
    T
  • Dad comes home on Saturday evening.
    F
  • Mom and Dad and Sam are all _______.
    astonished
  • Grandma says she may just read everything in the world since she reads now.
    T