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Zinnia Guards the Meadow

Read a picture-book story about a bossy hummingbird, with each page's picture described in words, and explain how the pictures add mood and character traits.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.3.7

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10 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students explain how an illustration stresses a character's traits.
Students explain how illustrations set and change the mood of a story.
Students tell which details come from the words and which come from the pictures.

How to use

Read each page and its picture description aloud, pausing so students can imagine the picture. Then let students answer on their own and share their written answers.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.3.7

Explain how a story's illustrations add to its words, such as by setting a mood or stressing a trait of a character or setting.

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Zinnia Guards the Meadow

Find out what the pictures on each page add to the words.

Read the picture book

Each numbered paragraph is one page of a picture book. The pictures for Pages 1, 2, 3 and 5 are described in words below the story.

Zinnia Guards the Meadow

1High on a mountain meadow, a hummingbird named Zinnia found a patch of red flowers. "Mine!" she buzzed. "Every drop of nectar here belongs to me."

2When another hummingbird named Rafa came near, Zinnia zoomed at him and chased him away. When a butterfly landed on a petal, she shooed it off too. All day long, she darted back and forth, and she hardly had time to sip.

3By evening, Zinnia's wings ached. Dark clouds slid over the peaks, and a cold wind shook the flowers. Zinnia clung to a bent stem and shivered.

4Rafa found her there. "There are plenty of flowers for both of us," he said kindly. "Come and share my spot under the pine branches. The wind can't reach it." Zinnia ducked under the branches beside him.

5The next morning, the sun warmed the meadow. Zinnia sipped from one flower, and Rafa sipped from the next. "Plenty for both of us," Zinnia hummed.

Picture for Page 1: Zinnia stands on top of the tallest flower like a queen on a throne. She puffs out her shiny green feathers. Her long beak points straight at the reader.

Picture for Page 2: Zinnia's wings are a fuzzy blur, and zigzag lines show her zooming in every direction. Her feathers stick out in messy tufts. A butterfly flutters off in a hurry.

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