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Creep, Stroll, Dash: Sunrise on Thistle Hill

Grade 2 shades of meaning: animal friends climb a hill at sunrise while students compare verbs like creep and dash and adjectives like starving.

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Aligned toL.2.5.b

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students tell apart closely related verbs such as creep, stroll, dash, nibble and gobble.
Students order and match closely related adjectives such as hungry and starving or tired and exhausted.

How to use

Read the story aloud and have students act out creeping, strolling and dashing. Then let them answer the questions on their own and talk about their answer to the last question.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.2.5.b

Tell apart shades of meaning among closely related verbs (toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).

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Creep, Stroll, Dash: Sunrise on Thistle Hill

Tell apart verbs and adjectives that mean almost the same thing.

Read the story

Read the story. Look at the words that tell how each animal moves and feels.

Sunrise on Thistle Hill

1Every summer morning, four animal friends meet at the top of Thistle Hill to watch the sun come up. The path to the top is long and steep.

2Shelly the snail always leaves first. She creeps up the path, inch by inch, while the sky is dark. Next comes Bram the bear cub. He strolls along, humming a song and sniffing the flowers.

3Then Mira the mouse scurries up the path with quick little steps. Last of all comes Rory the rabbit, who woke up late. He dashes up the hill as fast as he can and leaps over a fallen branch.

4At the top, Rory flops down on the grass. He is not just tired. He is exhausted! Bram's tummy growls. He is starving, so he gobbles a big pile of berries. Mira is only a little hungry, so she nibbles one seed.

5Then the friends grow quiet. The sun peeks over the trees, and the sky turns pink and gold. Shelly gazes at it for a long, long time. "It was worth the trip," she whispers.

Ways to move

Some words for moving are slow, and some are fast.

In paragraph 2, Shelly creeps up the path. What does creep mean?

A. to hop up very high
B. to move very slowly
C. to run very fast
D. to swim across water

Which word fits best in this sentence?
A hawk flew over the field, so the chipmunk ____ into its hole as fast as it could.

A. strolled
B. crept
C. darted
D. wandered

Sort the words. Is each one a slow way or a fast way to move?

dashcreepcrawlzoomracestroll

Slow	Fast

Write the three words from the box in order from slowest to fastest.

Word bank: sprint · walk · jog

Slowest:
Faster:
Fastest:

Gentle and strong words

Some words are stronger than others, even when they mean almost the same thing.

In paragraph 4, Bram is starving. What does starving mean in this story?

A. a little bit hungry
B. full after a big meal
C. sleepy after a long walk
D. very, very hungry

Write the word from paragraph 4 that means very, very tired.

Rory is .

Match each word to a word that means almost the same thing, only stronger.

happy
big
scared
small

A. terrified
B. tiny
C. enormous
D. thrilled

Write the word from the box that fits each sentence best. Use each word once.

Word bank: nibbled · peeked · gobbled · gazed

The hungry goat the whole pile of hay in a few minutes.
The baby rabbit one tiny bite of clover.
Ana at the bright stars for a long, long time.
The fox kit out of its den for just a second.

In paragraph 5, Shelly gazes at the sunrise. To glance means to take a quick look. Why is gazes a better word here than glances? Use the story to explain.