Grade 5

Explore Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach! Practice vocabulary, synonyms, and writing skills.

A. Look in the word bank to find the missing word and then explain what the words have in common (example: they are homophones, they are food words, they are synonyms) 1. trouble, trouble, troublesome : same word family 2. remarkable, superior, outstanding : synonyms 3. ancestor, grandparent, uncle, aunt : types of relatives 4. unaware, uneasy, unstable, unsure : same prefix 5. clip, glue, bind, staple : ways to stick papers together 6. hot, lukewarm, cold : temperatures 7. sight, site, cite : homophones 8. filter, sift, sort : synonyms9. burrow, cavern, dungeon, tunnel : dark, underground places10. rectangular,circular, triangular : describing shapes B. Complete the sentences. C. Before you read the story, watch this video about Faith Ringgold. D. Read the story below. E. QUESTIONS ABOUT THE STORY1. This passage tells mainly about the life of Faith Ringgold Faith's mother Faith as a student Tar Beach 2. The word inspiremeans to ruin to hold back to scare and confuse to encourage and excite 3. Another word for juvenileis: adult person child daughter 4. Another word for extraordinaryis: colorful common dull exceptional 5. To focus means to ignore to learn to concentrate to like 6. In this story, to reflect means to return to show to absorb to relax 7. The meaning of variety is small amount all the same assortment not at all 8. Why did Faith call one story quilt Tar Beach? The story told about tar. The story happened at night. She painted the roof black 9. Write a sentence that tells something that you learned from the story. F. Faith Ringgold reads her book Tar Beach Enjoy the story and the pictures. G. Describe a picture that you might draw about your life now. Answer these questions in your writing: (of course use sentences and write in paragraph form) 1. What scene would be in the picture?2. Who would be in the picture?3. What colors would you use?4. What details would you add? What would you leave out? H. If you want to draw the picture, or a sketch of it, you can do it below.