A Birthday Basket for Tia Second Grade Reading Unit 6 Story 3.

A Birthday Basket for Tia

Second Grade Reading

Unit 6 Story 3

Vocabulary Wordspresentauntbasketcollectsbank

favoritepiñataninetiethtia

presentSomething that someone

gives you or that you give someone.

auntYour father’s or you mother’s

sister; your uncle’s wife.

basketsSomething to carry or store

things in.

collectsTo brings things together or to

gather things.

bankA place where people keep

their money.

favoriteThe one thing you like better

than all the others.

piñataA decorated shape filled with candy,

fruit, and small toys and hung at a holiday time in Mexico and other Latin American countries. Blindfolded children swing sticks in order to break to get what is inside.

ninetiethNext after the 89th.

8988878685

tiaThe Spanish word for aunt.

Amazing Wordscelebrationcustomtraditioncreate

inspectanglebrilliantsnapshot

celebrationA party or other activity in which

people might eat, play music, and have a good time together to show happiness about a special day or when something good happens.

customSomething that people

always do or have done for a long time.

traditionA custom or belief that is

handed down from generation to generation.

createTo make something that

hasn’t been made before.

inspectTo look at something very

carefully.

angleThe way from which you

look at something and see it.

brilliantVery bright and sparkling.

snapshotA simple picture taken with

a camera.