After receiving more food, the wife sent the fisherman to ask the fish for a bigger house while she nervously picked at the expe
nsive lobster feast spread before her. She became perpetually restless and irritable, pacing the house until the fisherman returned home each day to discover his wife’s latest longing. A synonym for the word longing in paragraph 9 is?
Students who comprehend the most from their reading are those who when a lot about words. Students know about word prefixes, suffixes, word roots, and multiple meanings of words. Knowledge expands their vocabulary which helps when they encounter new words during reading.
