5th Grade 2nd Semester ELA Interim Review - Nonfiction

An _____________ is when you take what the story said and what you know to reach a conclusion.

• explicit

• inference

• conclusion

• text evidence

When you go find proof in the text for your answer it is called ___________.

• inference

• conclusion

• text evidence

• author's purpose

When something is stated direct and clear it is stated ________.

• explicitly

• inference

• vaguely

• conclusively

How do the caption and photograph help the reader understand the text?

• It helps the reader understand how beautiful the landscape is.

• It helps the reader understand important ideas from the text.

• It helps the reader know what page the story is on.

How does a subheading help the reader?

• It helps the reader to label the text.

• It helps the reader understand the photograph.

• It helps the get the reader's attention on certain information.

Due to their incredible force and unpredictability, floods can cause tremendous damage. They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind. It can take months to clean up after a flood.

Based on what you have read, you can INFER that:

• Cleaning up after a flood can be expensive and take time.

• Floods only occur along the coast.

• Floods are not that dangerous.

• After flood waters dry up then the problem is over.

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Floods can cause tremendous damage.  They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind.  It can take months to clean up after a flood.
 What is the main idea?

• Floods can cause a lot of damage.
• Floods cause mudslides.
• Floods damage houses and roads. 

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Weather reporters have to give out a lot of information. That's why they use pictures. The pictures help them tell us about the weather without using so many words. Weather reporters need to know where the cold air is. They need to know where the warm air is. They have to know where it is raining and what types of clouds are in the area. Their reports need to be correct, but they also need to be short. The pictures help weather reporters get the information out in a fast way.

Which sentence best describes the main idea of the paragraph?

• Weather reporters need to know where the cold air is.

• Pictures help weather reporters get information out in a fast way.

• Their reports need to be correct, but they also need to be short.

• They have to know where it is raining and what types of clouds are in the area.

Dorothea Lange was an American photographer. She was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on May 26, 1895. Early in her career, she took portraits for a living in San Francisco. Though she lived for a time in the Southwest, she returned to San Francisco in the early thirties. By then, the Great Depression of the 1930s had begun. Lange began walking the streets with her camera. She recorded pictures of hungry people standing in lines to get free handouts of bread and other powerful images.

Lange became best known for her black and white photos of poor, migrant¹ farm workers. Life was very hard for them in the thirties. They went to California to find work, but there were few jobs to be had. When jobs could be found, the pay was very low. Lange hoped her photos would get the government and other groups to help. Her pictures brought the world’s attention to the migrant workers’ situation. Dorothea Lange passed away on October 11, 1965. Today, her work lives on in museums, galleries, and books.

¹ someone who must move to different places to find work

Which two ideas should be included in a summary of the second paragraph?

• Many migrant farm workers came out west looking for work, but the pay was very low.

• Lange took photos of migrant farm workers, and she drew attention to their suffering.

• There were few jobs around during the Depression, and Lange's photos appear in museums.

• Lange's photgraphs appear in books, and she passed away in 1965.

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Dorothea Lange was an American photographer. She was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on May 26, 1895. Early in her career, she took portraits for a living in San Francisco. Though she lived for a time in the Southwest, she returned to San Francisco in the early thirties. By then, the Great Depression of the 1930s had begun. Lange began walking the streets with her camera. She recorded pictures of hungry people standing in lines to get free handouts of bread and other powerful images.

Lange became best known for her black and white photos of poor, migrant¹ farm workers. Life was very hard for them in the thirties. They went to California to find work, but there were few jobs to be had. When jobs could be found, the pay was very low. Lange hoped her photos would get the government and other groups to help. Her pictures brought the world’s attention to the migrant workers’ situation. Dorothea Lange passed away on October 11, 1965. Today, her work lives on in museums, galleries, and books.

¹ someone who must move to different places to find work

Choose the best sentence to summarize how the Great Depression affected Lange's work.

• The Depression caused a shift in Lange's work as she began to focus on the hardships of the Great Depression.

• The Depression stretched on through the thirties, leaving a large portion of the country out of work and struggling.

• Lange moved to California during the thirties, far from her childhood home in New Jersey.

• Before the Depression began, Lange made her living taking people's portraits in San Francisco.

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