Tag Archives: grades 3-5

Comprehension Questions- Deltora Quest #3 City of the Rats

 City of the Rats

By Emily Rodda

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fantasy; GRL S; AR pts: 4.0

Lief, Barda and Jasmine are on their next quest to find the third gem that will help restore Del from the evil Shadow Lord.  They must enter the City of the Rats, but on their way they find a city where the corrupt leaders serve the Shadow Lord.  Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Deltora Quest #5 Dread Mountain

Dread Mountain

by Emily Rodda

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fantasy; GRL T; AR pts: 4.0

Lief, Barda and Jasmine are on to their next quest in restoring the Belt of Deltora.  So far, they have recovered the topaz, ruby, opal and the lapis lazuli.  Luckily, they meet some friends that help them on their journey to Dread Mountain to retrieve the fifth gem, the emerald. Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Horrid Henry Rocks

Horrid Henry Rocks

By Francesca Simon

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; GRL M; AR pts: 1.0

Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter go to war in the first story of this book.   Then Henry gets a craving in the middle of night and sneaks into Margaret's secret tent and steals her cookies,  he writes his autobiography and in the last story Henry gets to go to a concert. Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Horrid Henry’s Monster Movie

Horrid Henry’s Monster Movie

By Francesca Simon

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; GRL M; AR pts: 1.0

Henry loves scary movies and is very disappointed in the latest movie about the zombie vampire werewolf.  He decides to make his own scary with a challenge from Margaret that his won't be as good as hers.  You'll also read about Henry going to Aunt Ruby's as well as how Henry behaves when he trades Peter for his grump cards and how Henry throws his own Olympic games. Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #23 Babysitting Bandit

 Babysitting Bandit

By Carolyn Keene

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; AR pts: 2.0

Nancy and her friends are asked to be mother's helpers for a neighbor whose adopted twins.  As they babysit a special rattle, music CD and toy mouse disappear which is upsetting to the twins.  The Clue Crew hops on the case and investigates to find out who would take toys from babies. Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Horrid Henry and the Soccer Fiend

Horrid Henry and the Soccer Fiend  

By Francesca Simon

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; GRL M; AR pts: 1.0

In this collection of Horrid Henry stories, Horrid Henry finds Peter's journal and helps him fix it before Peter's supposed to read it in an assembly at school.  Henry also has a chance to win soccer tickets, he gets to go clothes shopping with his mom and a new student comes to school and Henry gets put in charge of him.  Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #5 The Case of the Sneaky Snowman

The Case of the Sneaky Snowman

By Carolyn Keene

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; GRL O; AR pts: 1.0

Nancy and the Clue Crew build a snowman during their winter break, but strange things begin to happen when one of their friends from school begins to tell fortunes and they begin to come true.  The Clue Crew needs to solve how all of the fortunes are coming true before everything snowballs out of control. Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy

Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy

By Francesca Simon

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; GRL M; AR pts: 1.0

In these simple short stories, Horrid Henry tries to trick the tooth fairy, gets to be a ring bearer for his cousin's wedding, has Moody Margaret as a house guest for two weeks, and gets a new teacher at school.  Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman

Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman

By Francesca Simon

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; GRL M; AR pts: 1.0

In this collection of stories, Horrid Henry tries to win a snowman building contest so he can win ice cream for a year.  He also gets grounded from watching television and is sent to his room where he writes his will.  Henry likes Margaret’s idea of doing makeovers and decides to make some money doing his own.  And the last story is about when Horrid Henry gets to meet his favorite author. Continue reading

Comprehension Questions- The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #17 Elves Don’t Wear Hard Hats

Elves Don’t Wear Hard Hats

By Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fantasy; GRL M; AR pts: 1.0

The kids at Bailey School are excited to get a new playground, but the adults in charge can't decide how to make the playground and argue about it constantly.  A construction crew of workers show up at the school and begin to take down the old playground.  The kids think they are elves, but don't understand why Santa's elves are helping them with their playground. Continue reading