Comprehension Questions- 1 Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus – RiseToReading

June b. jones and the stupid smelly bus

by barbara park

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grades 1-3; genre – fiction; grl m; ar points: 1.0

Remember when it was scary to go to school? because it was your first day and you didn’t know anything. meet June B. jones, kindergarten boy. He’s so afraid of the school bus and the bad guys on it that when it’s time to go home, he doesn’t.

comprehension questions

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chapter 1

1. why did junie b. took her to visit the school? meeting her teacher; show her the classroom p.1
2. explain what junie’s mom b. told him about the bus. she said it was yellow; called a school bus; she stops at the end of her street; get in, sit down and take her to school; then her teacher will meet her in the parking lot p.7

chapter 2

1. what did june b. she feels like when she was worried? she did not sleep well; fallen; Stomach ache; she couldn’t eat her cereal p.10
2. which helped junie b. Get on the bus? her mom showed junie b. that she should sit next to a girl on the bus and that it will be fun p.12

chapter 3

1. why didn’t the curly haired girl let junie b. sit next to her? she was reserving that seat for her friend p.13
2. what was junie b. on the bus and why couldn’t she change it? she was very hot and she couldn’t roll down the windows p.16
3. which made the bus experience worse as junie b. she tried to get down? people pushed her; she made it fall in the corridor; she stepped on her skirt p.19

chapter 4

1. what color chair did junie b. do you want to sit down red p.22
2. what is the name of the girl with the red nails? lucille p.25
3. name three places junie b.’s class visited? be sure to list them in the order they were visited. library; Cafeteria; nursing p. 26

chapter 5

1. what happened to lucille’s brother last year when he visited the principal? the principal yelled at him and told him that he can’t hit kids at recess anymore p.30
2. what did lucille say he made junie b. squirm? she talked about the bus ride home p.34
3. why not junie b. follow her teacher as she led them to the bus? she didn’t want to take the bus home p.35

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chapter 6

1. where did junie b. disguise? in the supply closet p.37
2. when junie b. woke up from her nap, what did she find? the cars and the bus left the parking lot p.40
3. that junie b. pretend to be at the end of this chapter? the teacher p.42

chapter 7

1. what did june b. compare the media center with? a strong p.45
2. why junie b. like the pencil sharpener? made the pencils tiny p.47
3. who do you think was the man who was singing “somewhere over the rainbow”? the custodian p.48

chapter 8

1. when June b. she was in the infirmary, what did she do? pretend to be the nurse; put band-aids everywhere; she played with the crutches p.50
2. why junie b. Do you feel that the nurse’s office is a dangerous place? she fell off her crutches and hit her head on her desk p.55

chapter 9

1. why were the school gates locked? because there was no one p.58
2. who did junie b. Did she call her for help since she couldn’t open the door to go to the bathroom? 911 p.59
3. how did the man with the can help junie b.? he opened the doors so he could use the bathroom p.62

chapter 10

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1. why did junie b. hugged her too tight? June b. she didn’t get home on the bus and was worried about her p.64
2. which helped junie b. Do you want to ride the bus the next day? a girl named grace who is in june b. class p.68