Wonders Unit 2 week 4 Whooping Cranes Comprehension

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

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.3.2

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.3.2

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

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