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Isla's First Guitar Lesson

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Isla's First Guitar Lesson

Read a story and use sentence clues to learn new words.

Read the story

Read the story. You can read it with a grown-up. Look for clues near each bold word.

Isla's First Guitar Lesson

1Uncle Dev handed Isla a small, old guitar. The wood was scuffed, with tiny scratches all over it.

2"Hold it gently, not too hard," he said. Isla plucked one string, but the sound was so faint that she could hardly hear it.

3Next, Uncle Dev showed her how to strum by brushing his thumb down all the strings at once. Isla tried it. Twang!

4Soon Isla's fingers were sore, and they hurt from pressing on the strings. But she kept going, and at last she played a whole song.

5Uncle Dev grinned from ear to ear with a big, wide smile. "Way to go, Isla!" he cheered, and he gave her a high five.

Clues in the story

Use the other words in the sentence to answer.

1.
Read paragraph 1. What does scuffed mean?
Question 1 options
2.
Read paragraph 2. What does faint mean?
Question 2 options
3.
Which words in paragraph 2 help you know what faint means?
Question 3 options
4.
Read paragraph 3. What does strum mean?
Question 4 options
5.
Read paragraph 4. What does sore mean?
Question 5 options
6.
Read paragraph 5. What does grinned from ear to ear mean?
Question 6 options
7.
In paragraph 5, Uncle Dev says "Way to go". What does he mean?
Question 7 options

New sentences, new words

Read each sentence. Use the clue to pick the word from the box that means the same as the bold word. Write it on the line.

8.
Use each word in the box one time.

Isla played a brief song that was over in a few seconds.
Brief means .

Uncle Dev's guitar case is enormous, as big as Isla!
Enormous means .

Isla's cat dozed on the bed and slept the whole time she played.
Dozed means .

Isla adores her guitar and gives it a hug every night.
Adores means .

9.
Read paragraph 2 again. What does gently mean? Write the clue that helped you.