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Book: Leah’s Pony
Author: Elizabeth Friedrich
ISBN: 978-0-02-199970-5
1. When did Leah’s dad buy her a pony?
2. What do you think this sentence means about the situation on a farm? “The year the corn grew tall and straight.”
3. When corn grows tall and straight, can it be sold?
4. What do you think this sentence means? “That whole summer, Leah and her pony crossed through the pasture.”
5. Can you relate sometime of your life that was good to what Leah is feeling at this time on page 681?
6. Why did Leah love to ride her pony into town?
7. What did Mr. B shout?
8. What does this sentence mean? “The year the corn grew no taller than a man’s thumb.”
9. Was there a time gap between these two sentences? “The year the corn grew tall and straight” and “The year the corn grew no taller than a man’s thumb.” If so, for how long?
10. What was the result in Leah’s house from “The year the corn grew no taller than a man’s thumb”?
11. Can you relate Leah’s house being quiet to your own home?
12. When parents speak in whispering voices, does it mean bad news is in the horizon (bad news coming soon)?
13. What turned the sky black with dust?
14. How did the sky turn black?
15. What is a sow?
16. What are piglets?
17. What clues from the text on page 682 tell you that these are hard times?
18. What were the results of these hard times on page 683? (Tip: There are 4 results)
a. ____________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________
c. ____________________________________________________________
d. ____________________________________________________________
19. What are flour sacks?
20. Do you know of other similar sacks in the supermarket?
21. Can you imagine using these sacks, like Leah’s mother did in the story, to make underwear?
a. Do you think a person has to be very poor to go to these extremes?
22. What does this sentence mean?
23. What did the grasshopper eat?
24. (Infer) Do you think the grasshoppers ate the human thumb length corn? Explain your answer
25. Why did the neighbors leave to Oregon?
26. What clues on page 684 tell you the neighbors didn’t leave on vacation?
a. Give one text example: ________________________________________
b. Give one example from the picture: ______________________________
27. Why did Leah’s father borrow money from the bank?
28. What happened to the seeds?
29. What type of seeds did he buy?
30. What is the bank going to do to get their money back from Leah’s father?
31. What might happen to the family if her father losses the tractor?
32. Was Leah upset when the man in the big hat hammered a sign into the ground in front of her house? Using clues from page 687, how do you know?
33. What did Leah do to her pony to help the family?
34. For how much did the man sell Leah’s family’s wagon?
35. Leah arrived just in time to see 3 items get auctioned, what were they?
36. What can the tractor do on a farm field?
37. Why did Leah only bid $1 for the tractor?
38. Do you think the audience knew Leah sold her pony to buy the tractor? What clues do you see that will tell you if they did or didn’t know?
39. Why did the man sell the tractor to Leah for $1?
40. Why did the crowd cheer when Leah won the bid for the tractor?
41. What was auction next after the tractor?
42. How much were the chickens sold for?
43. What was auctioned after the chickens?
44. How much was the truck sold for?
45. What items were auctioned after the truck?
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
c. ____________________________________________________________________
46. For how much were these items sold for?
47. Why couldn’t Leah sleep that night? She should have been able to sleep since she saved her dad’s tractor from being sold.
48. Why did Mr. B give the pony back? You can’t use this sentence to support your answer. “But he’s a little bit small for me and a little bit big for my grandson.” Use clues from the text to support your answer.
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Book: Leah’s Pony
Author: Elizabeth Friedrich
ISBN: 978-0-02-199970-5
1. When did Leah’s dad buy her a pony?
2. What do you think this sentence means about the situation on a farm? “The year the corn grew tall and straight.”
3. When corn grows tall and straight, can it be sold?
4. What do you think this sentence means? “That whole summer, Leah and her pony crossed through the pasture.”
5. Can you relate sometime of your life that was good to what Leah is feeling at this time on page 681?
6. Why did Leah love to ride her pony into town?
7. What did Mr. B shout?
8. What does this sentence mean? “The year the corn grew no taller than a man’s thumb.”
9. Was there a time gap between these two sentences? “The year the corn grew tall and straight” and “The year the corn grew no taller than a man’s thumb.” If so, for how long?
10. What was the result in Leah’s house from “The year the corn grew no taller than a man’s thumb”?
11. Can you relate Leah’s house being quiet to your own home?
12. When parents speak in whispering voices, does it mean bad news is in the horizon (bad news coming soon)?
13. What turned the sky black with dust?
14. How did the sky turn black?
15. What is a sow?
16. What are piglets?
17. What clues from the text on page 682 tell you that these are hard times?
18. What were the results of these hard times on page 683? (Tip: There are 4 results)
a. ____________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________
c. ____________________________________________________________
d. ____________________________________________________________
19. What are flour sacks?
20. Do you know of other similar sacks in the supermarket?
21. Can you imagine using these sacks, like Leah’s mother did in the story, to make underwear?
a. Do you think a person has to be very poor to go to these extremes?
22. What does this sentence mean?
23. What did the grasshopper eat?
24. (Infer) Do you think the grasshoppers ate the human thumb length corn? Explain your answer
25. Why did the neighbors leave to Oregon?
26. What clues on page 684 tell you the neighbors didn’t leave on vacation?
a. Give one text example: ________________________________________
b. Give one example from the picture: ______________________________
27. Why did Leah’s father borrow money from the bank?
28. What happened to the seeds?
29. What type of seeds did he buy?
30. What is the bank going to do to get their money back from Leah’s father?
31. What might happen to the family if her father losses the tractor?
32. Was Leah upset when the man in the big hat hammered a sign into the ground in front of her house? Using clues from page 687, how do you know?
33. What did Leah do to her pony to help the family?
34. For how much did the man sell Leah’s family’s wagon?
35. Leah arrived just in time to see 3 items get auctioned, what were they?
36. What can the tractor do on a farm field?
37. Why did Leah only bid $1 for the tractor?
38. Do you think the audience knew Leah sold her pony to buy the tractor? What clues do you see that will tell you if they did or didn’t know?
39. Why did the man sell the tractor to Leah for $1?
40. Why did the crowd cheer when Leah won the bid for the tractor?
41. What was auction next after the tractor?
42. How much were the chickens sold for?
43. What was auctioned after the chickens?
44. How much was the truck sold for?
45. What items were auctioned after the truck?
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
c. ____________________________________________________________________
46. For how much were these items sold for?
47. Why couldn’t Leah sleep that night? She should have been able to sleep since she saved her dad’s tractor from being sold.
48. Why did Mr. B give the pony back? You can’t use this sentence to support your answer. “But he’s a little bit small for me and a little bit big for my grandson.” Use clues from the text to support your answer.
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