Reading + Standard 5A- Examining Text Structure-Lesson 3

Reading + Standard 5A- Examining Text Structure-Lesson 3

Intermediate

Multiple Select

A huge wildfire is never good news. One spark can lead to disaster. A wildfire can quickly become a huge wall of fire. What can you do to help prevent one? If you’re camping in a forest, make sure to put out the campfire before you leave the site. Make sure all matches are stored safely away.

Select the two sentences in the paragraph above that list ways in which you can keep a wildfire from happening.

• A huge wildfire is never good news.

• One spark can lead to disaster.

• A wildfire can quickly become a huge wall of fire.

• If you’re camping in a forest, make sure to put out the campfire before you leave the site.

• Make sure all matches are stored safely away.

Multiple Choice

A huge wildfire is never good news. One spark can lead to disaster. A wildfire can quickly become a huge wall of fire. What can you do to help prevent one? If you’re camping in a forest, make sure to put out the campfire before you leave the site. Make sure all matches are stored safely away

The paragraph above explains the danger of wildfires and some things that can be done to help prevent them. The text structure in this paragraph can best be described as

• A. persuasive or argument.

• B. descriptive.

• C. problem and solution.

• D. narrative.

Multiple Choice

The people who want to eliminate the penny point out that the cost of making pennies is a waste of money. That is because, as of 2010, it costs the U.S. Mint 1.79 cents to make a penny worth one cent. This means it costs the government more to make a penny than the penny itself is worth.

The paragraph above is about the penny. What argument does the author make here?

• A. The penny should no longer be used because it is too expensive to make.

• B. Pennies should not be kept at home because children and pets can swallow them.

• C. The U.S. Mint should increase the amount of pennies made each year.

• D. All vending machines should accept pennies as a form of payment.

Multiple Select

The title of “superstorm” is fairly new. It means a big storm that has a mix of things in it. It has a lot of rain. It has high winds. It may have thunder and lightning. A superstorm along a coast has something else. It has a storm surge. A storm surge is when the wind makes waves in the ocean get very large. They come up and flood the land.

Based on its description in the paragraph above, a superstorm along a coast has which two things?

• A. sand storms

• B. large dust clouds

• C. high winds

• D. a storm surge

• E. blue skies

Multiple Choice

A fossil is anything that a living thing has left behind. Fossils are nature’s way of telling us about the history of the Earth. People have been writing with letters and pictures for thousands of years. But the Earth is much older than writing. The Earth is three to four billion years old. Scientists use fossils to get information about the Earth before writing existed.

The paragraph above is about fossils. Select the sentence that describes how fossils are helpful to scientists.

• A fossil is anything that a living thing has left behind.

• Fossils are nature’s way of telling us about the history of the Earth.

• People have been writing with letters and pictures for thousands of years.

• The Earth is three to four billion years old.

• Scientists use fossils to get information about the Earth before writing existed.