Reading and Vocabulary Skills

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📚 Part 1: Reading Comprehension

Every spring the small town of Maplewood opens a community garden behind the library. Families reserve beds to plant vegetables and flowers. Volunteers teach children how to nurture seedlings, and the town shares the harvest with a nearby food pantry. Over time, the garden became a place where neighbors meet, learn, and watch their efforts thrive.

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

The town built a new library.

A community garden brings neighbors together and helps others.

Volunteers do most of the planting for local farms.

2. According to the passage, who benefits directly from the garden's harvest?

Only the library staff

Families with garden beds

A nearby food pantry

3. Explain one way the garden helps children. Use one sentence.

4. Which word from the passage best matches the meaning "to care for and help grow"?

reserve

nurture

thrive

5. Find and write two pieces of text evidence that show the garden is important to the community.

✏️ Part 2: Vocabulary & Problem Solving

6. Match each vocabulary word from the passage with its best synonym. Draw lines to match.

A. nurture

B. thrive

C. reserve

1. prosper

2. save or set aside

3. care for

7. Use two vocabulary words from the passage (nurture, thrive, reserve) in separate sentences. Write one sentence for each word.

8. Problem solving: A family reserves a 4-foot by 6-foot garden bed. They want equal rows of plants that are each 1 foot wide. How many rows can they plant across the 4-foot side? Explain briefly.

Reading and Vocabulary Skills

Reading and Vocabulary Skills

📚 Part 1: Reading Comprehension

✏️ Part 2: Vocabulary & Problem Solving

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