Check Your Understanding

1.–2. Work with a partner to complete each item.

• 1. Classify Look at the different types of kites shown in “Kite Festival.” Make a chart like the one below. Then complete the chart by classifying the kites by shape and color.

  Kite Shape	Kite Color
  The kite shown on page 265 is a square.	The kite shown on page 265 is red and white.

• 2. Use your chart to tell about the colorful kites at the festival. Did you enjoy the selection?

Review Vocabulary

3.–7. Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

The Hamamatsu Kite Festival ______ in the 1500s to ______ the birth of a new Japanese prince. The people at the festival ______ the ______ kites. The kites fly ______ in the sky.

Write about Celebrations

8. Write about a tradition that you know about. Tell when it started and what people do to celebrate it.