Read the following passage and then answer the question. The Elk River flows from the far northern part of the state all the way to the southern tip. All kinds of animals rely on it for drinking water, people eat the fish they catch in it, and farmers in the state depend on it for irrigating their crops. Since there is very little rain in this state, the Elk River gives animals and humans the water they need to stay alive. Even though the river is not nearly the biggest in the nation, it is very important to the people and animals that live near it.

The Elk River is very important to people and animals.

The Elk River is a small river.

The Elk River starts in the northern part of the state.

People catch fish in the Elk River.

Read the following passage and then answer the question. As soon as she arrived at grandmother's house, Jessica ran into her bedroom to look at the blue quilt. It covered her grandmother's bed and was Jessica's favorite. It had patches of dark blue, medium blue, and light blue, with pictures of birds and flowers on every other patch. Jessica liked to take naps with the quilt wrapped around her. She loved the way it felt so soft and warm against her skin. Whenever she was visiting grandma, just looking at the quilt made Jessica happy.

Jessica loved her grandmother's quilt.

Jessica's grandmother has a pretty blue quilt.

Jessica took naps at her grandmother's house.

Read the following passage and then answer the question. Books lay in the middle of his floor. Several broken toys were shoved halfway under the bed, and dirty clothes were everywhere. Frank's parents kept telling him to clean his room, but it never seemed to get clean. In fact, if Frank did manage to clean part of it, the rest of the room just got messier. In one corner of the room was an old peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an open bag of potato chips was thrown on the dresser.

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich was in one corner of the room.

Frank got in big trouble because his room was not clean.

Read the following passage and then answer the question. Math didn't make much sense to Cathy. She always got area and perimeter mixed up and she had no idea what a right angle was. Last quarter she failed math, and this quarter wasn't any better. As long as she could remember, math had been hard for Cathy. She did fine in reading and science, but not math. Now she was working on her math homework, but she didn't know how to do most of it. Who invented math, anyway!

Cathy was not very good at math.

Cathy did well in reading and science.

Cathy always got area and perimeter mixed up.

Read the following passage and then answer the question. Jose carefully poured out the bag of marbles on his bed. He picked his ten favorite marbles and carefully set them to the side. Then he got out a small bag from his top drawer, and put the ten marbles inside. Just to make sure he wouldn't forget them, he placed the bag of marbles in his backpack. Jose loved show and tell, and he was excited that he would get to show his class some of his favorite marbles.

Jose was getting his favorite marbles ready to take to school for show and tell.

Jose would rather play marbles than play baseball.

Jose placed the bag of marbles in his backpack.

Read the following passage and then answer the question. "Are you already done, son?" his father asked. "It seems like you just got in the water." Jacob was finished with his bath in less than two minutes. He got his body and hair wet, rubbed some grape flavored shampoo on his hair, washed his body with soap, and quickly rinsed it off. He liked to take fast baths so he would have more time to play. In fact, Jacob never took a long bath. To him, the faster the bath, the better.

Jacob likes to take fast baths.

Jacob uses grape flavored shampoo.

Read the following passage and then answer the question. Lisa knew all of the seven dwarfs except one. She remembered Grumpy, Sleepy and Bashful. And of course she couldn't forget Doc and Dopey. Dopey was her favorite. But there was one she just could not remember. Let's see. There's also Sneezy, and that's six. But she could not remember that last one. What was his name?

Lisa could not remember the name of one of the dwarfs.

Dopey was Lisa's favorite dwarf.

There were seven dwarfs in all.

It started when they got to the bears. Peter felt tired and his stomach hurt. He dragged himself over to see the elephants, which were eating from a stack of hay. Normally, the elephants were his favorite. Without much interest, Peter followed his classmates to the camels, which were busy swatting flies with their tails. Peter knew he should be having fun at the zoo, but he just felt terrible and all he wanted to do was lie down and rest. Even the lions and tigers did not interest him now. The Summary of this passage is:

Peter didn't enjoy the zoo because he felt really bad.

Peter's favorite animals were the elephants.

The camels were swatting flies with their tails.

Which best describes a summary?

the main ideas and important details of a text

a really long detailed piece of writing

the entire text told in your own words

a dumb thing that teachers make you write

What is the first step to summarizing a passage?

Carefully reading through and understanding the passage so you can make a better summary.

Put the first important thing you see down without even reading the passage.

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers. The swamps of southeast Texas have alligators and other exotic wildlife. The Summary of this passage is:

There are many different, varied parts of Texas.

There are a lot of cows in Texas.

Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.

There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

San Francisco is located on the coast of California in an area often called the Bay Area. The weather is generally very mild, seldom getting really cold or really hot. Its mild climate is one reason many people live there. It seldom snows in San Francisco and generally does not get below freezing during the winter. Even in the middle of summer, temperatures may be in the mid 80s with a cool breeze from the bay keeping the weather very comfortable . The Summary of this passage is:

The weather in San Francisco is generally very mild.

San Francisco has many neat things to do.

Many people choose to live in California.

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin. The Summary of this passage is:

Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.

The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.

Jill will choose a place by flipping a coin.

Right now Jason was playing right field. He really wanted to play third base. Earlier this year, coach had put him in left field and second base in a game, but never at third base. Once in practice, coach let him play third base, but he kept missing ground balls. When he did stop one, he made a bad throw to first base. Maybe if he kept practicing, Jason would be good enough to play third base. That was his dream. The Summary of this passage is:

Jason really wanted to play third base.

Jason was the best player on his team.

Jason had trouble catching ground balls.

Jason was too lazy to practice.

"The Europeans did not consider the indigenous.... people to be civilized...."

People from Europe thought that native people were not as advanced as they were.

Portugal did not consider native people as "humans".

The Europeans did not think the indigenous people to be civilized.

"Whenever you are trying to describe how quickly or slowly something occurs, you are describing a rate."

To describe how fast something is and how slow something is to describe how a rate is.

Whenever you try to describe things, you're always describing a rate.

Rates are fast or slow descriptions.

"Like the conquistadors of the sixteenth century, the Europeans took the land through force."

Europeans used force to take over the land in the same way conquistadors in the 1500s did.

The real power of the conquistadors lay elsewhere, with the production of steel.

Like the conquistadors of the 1500s, the Europeans took the land using force.

"To the east of the Pyrenees lie the Alps."

The Pyrenees are to the west of the Alps.

To the east of the Pyrenees are the Alps.

The Alps are taller than the Pyrenees.

"A warm cup of water has really fast molecules."

The molecules in the warm cup of water have a lot of kinetic energy

Fast molecules are in hot water.

A cold cup of water has low energy

"They like to swim on their back and sides and can see just as well underwater as they can above."

Otters love swimming, They can also see very well underwater --like how they see well on land.

Sea otters are good at floating on the water's surface, as air trapped in their fur makes them more buoyant.

They like to swimming and they can be seen underwater by divers and other animals.

"Keeping their fur in good condition is important, so otters spend a lot of time grooming."

Otters spend a lot of time keeping their fur clean because it is important for them.

Otters spend a lot of time brushing their fur.

Keeping their fur in good shape is important, so otters spend a lot of time grooming.

"They are intelligent and curious, and they are usually busy hunting, investigating, or playing with something."

Otters are smart and wonder a lot. They are hunters so they are busy most of the time.

Sea Otter are smart and learn new things. They usually like to hunt small animals in rivers.

They like to hunting and playing and something.

"For the sea otter, half of each day is spent diving for food and eating it."

Sea otters spend half of every day diving for food to eat and eating it.

Sea otter consumes many types of prey including sea urchins, snails, clams, abalone, mussels, crabs, scallops, fish, barnacles, octopus, worms, and squid.

Each day they like to dive for food and eat food.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a summary?

a short explanation of a text

a persuasive argument about a text

a movie based off of a book

a theme or universal lesson

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When would you most likely summarize a book?

when you want to forget a book you've read

when you want to tell a friend your opinion of a book but not what it was about

when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book

when you don't understand a vocabulary word you read in a book

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A summary should

answer the 5 W's: who, what, when, where, and why

describe the details but not the main ideas

never mention the plot of the text

always mention the age of the author

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A summary should

answer the 5 W's: who, what, when, where, and why

describe the details but not the main ideas

never mention the plot of the text

always mention the age of the author

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

You should write your summary

in your own words with complete sentences

in a secret language that you make up

in one draft without revising

in fragments without punctuation

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What can you summarize?

only novels

only nonfiction

only movies

anything you read or watch

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Read the following passage and then answer the question.
There are five teams of students in the fifth grade. The blue team has math first period, and the red team has science. The yellow team gets to go outside early in the morning, while the green team goes to music. Only students on the orange team get to play games first period. Each student wears a nametag with his or her color, so that the teachers and students all know where a student should be.

Students are organized by teams with color names .

The blue team has math first.

Students wear nametags.

The yellow team has the best schedule.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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