Cricket Musicians LLI

What genre is this text?

• Fiction- Fantasy

• Nonfiction-Expository

• Nonfiction- Biography

• Fiction-Poem

Where have crickets been kept as musical pets for 1,000 years?

• United States

• France

• China

• Japan

True or False: All the crickets make the same sounds?

• True

• False

How can you tell the temperature with a cricket?

• Count it chirps in 30 seconds.

• Count it's chirps in 15 seconds and add 40 to it.

• Count the number of chirps in an hour.

• If you hear a cricket, it is 70 degrees.

What is one text feature NOT used in this text?

• picture caption

• table of contents

• labeling

• glossary

People in China still like playing with pet crickets today. True or False. Refer to page 12.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What was the special tool used to help crickets chirp

• tickler

• thermometer

• cage

• gourd

What helped the cricket make a more beautiful sound on page 9?

• honey

• tree sap

• juice

• nectar

Feng Liao uses crickets in his music.

• True

• False

What was the author's purpose for text?

• to inform the reader

• to entertain the reader

• to confuse the reader

• to persuade the reader