Reading: 'My Favorite Sweater' by Bonnie Highsmith Taylor

Read this poem about a girl and her favorite sweater. Then answer questions 12 through 15.

My favorite sweater grew too small.
I loved that sweater best of all.
My grandma made it when I was three.
She made that sweater just for me.
I picked the yarn, a special blue.
The color of bluebells, wet with dew.
When I was three I was very small
But now I’m five and much too tall.
I have a new jacket now that’s green
So I gave my sweater to our cat Queen.
Queen just had kittens out in the shed.
My favorite sweater is now their bed.

12 What is the most likely reason the sweater is the girl’s favorite?
A The girl’s grandma made it.
B The girl got it at the age of three.
C The yarn is the color of bluebells.
D The cat uses it for the kittens.

13 Why does the girl give the sweater away?
F The girl is tired of the sweater.
G The girl wants her grandma to make a new sweater.
H The girl likes her new jacket better than the sweater.
J The girl thinks the sweater is too small.

14 What will most likely happen to the green jacket?
A The jacket will become too small.
B The kittens will use the jacket for a bed.
C The jacket will become the girl’s favorite.
D The girl will trade the jacket for the sweater.

15 Read this line from the poem.
My favorite sweater grew too small. What does this line mean?
F The girl likes small sweaters.
G The girl became too big for the sweater.
H The girl’s grandma made a small sweater.
J The girl’s sweater became smaller than it once was.