Whooping Cranes in Danger (Unit 2, Week 4)

Which sentence BEST explains what the article is about?

• The whooping crane flocks are disappearing.
• The whooping crane flocks are looking for new habitats.
• Scientists are trying to keep the whooping crane flocks healthy.
• Scientists are slowly trying to increase the number of whooping crane flocks.

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.3.7

Why were there only fifteen wild whooping cranes in 1941?

• Other animals attacked them.
• The whooping crane flocks got sick.
• People captured them and put them in zoos.
• People hunted them and took over their habitats.

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.7

According to the article, why did the second flock of whooping cranes have to be born in a new place?

• because their habitat was disappearing
• because that is where the scientists were
• because whooping cranes always have to be born in different places. 
• because whooping cranes always fly to where they were born for the summer. 

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.7

What did the caretakers’ puppets teach the whooping crane chicks?

• how to fly
• how to walk
• where to eat
• where to sleep

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.3.7

Based on text evidence, what is the one thing that the puppets could not teach the chicks how to do?

• how to fly
• how to eat
• how to find a place to sleep
• how to get along with other cranes

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CCSS.RL.3.1