Island of the Blue Dolphins Reading Street 5th grade

What happened to Karana's brother?

• He left the island.
• Karana did NOT have a brother.
• He was killed by wild dogs.
• He drowned.

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CCSS.RL.5.1

What did Karana use to make a fence?

• Rocks.
• Coconut trees.
• Whale Ribs
• Sinew

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CCSS.RL.5.1

What peeked through the fence while Karana was cooking?

• Fox
• Wild dogs
• Monkeys
• Birds

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CCSS.RL.5.1

What is the genre of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

• Poem
• Fiction
• Autobiography
• Novel

lair

• bluish-black shellfish
• living or resting place of a wild animal
• happened to
• cracks; narrow openings resulting from a split

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CCSS.RL.4.4

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sinews

• large fish-eating birds having a pouch under their beak
• people who make bad decisions
• tendons; the tissues fastening a muscle to a bone
• happened to

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

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CCSS.RL.6.4

to work hard; done with great effort

• stalked
• gnawed
• slashed
• labored

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

to bite or nibble on something

• swallow
• gnaw
• slash
• basin

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.RI.5.4

large coarse, brown seaweed

• kelp
• parley
• ravine
• mesa

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

a deep, narrow cut in the earth

• ravine
• mesa
• league
• pelt

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4