Wordville Easter Reading Comprehension Print

Bermuda is an island in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. On Good Friday, at Bermuda's beautiful beaches, you will see lots of colorful kites flying in the sky.

What do kites have to do with Easter?
Flying kites on Good Friday is based on a story about a British teacher who wanted to help Bermudans understand Christ’s rising to heaven. The teacher made a kite shaped like a cross and painted a picture of Jesus on it. He flew the kite to show the Ascension.

Kite flying on Good Friday has since become a tradition in Bermuda. Some people spend months making large kites out of long sticks, glue, string, and colorful tissue paper. Many of the kites are octagonal (8 sides) or hexagonal (6 sides) and some have noisemakers called hummers attached to them.

Lately, however, fewer and fewer people are making their own kites. Instead, they buy plastic ones that are sold in the stores and at stands on the beach where the kite festival takes place.

The largest Good Friday Kite Festival is held at Bermuda's Horseshoe Bay Beach where they have kite contests, entertainment and Bermudan Easter hot cross buns and codfish cakes.

Where is Bermuda?
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean A kite shaped like an octagon has how many sides?
5
6
8
8 When is the Bermuda Kite Festival?
Palm Sunday
Good Friday
Easter Sunday
Good Friday Which of these are traditional Bermudan Easter foods?
codfish cakes
egg omelets
rice and peas
codfish cakes Where is the largest Bermuda kite festival held?
Hamilton Town Square
Horseshoe Bay Beach
Bermuda Parliament Building
Horseshoe Bay Beach What are hummers?
birds that like to fly beside kites
noisemakers attached to kites
a music group at a kite festival
noisemakers attached to kites Why did the teacher use a kite to show Christ ascending to heaven?
A kite is colorful and bright.
A kite also rises up to the sky.
A kite is like a cross.
A kite also rises up to the sky. Almost all homemade Bermudan kites are made with plastic.
True
False
It doesn't say in the story.
False Bermudan kites bought in stores are usually made of plastic.
True
False
It doesn't say in the story.
True

Wordville Easter Reading Comprehension