HmH Paper or Plastic?

Read the sentence from paragraph 2.

If we continue throwing plastic bags in the garbage, our landfills will become towering mountains of trash.

What does this sentence show? A B C D

• the author’s use of humor to change the tone of the passage

• the author’s use of exaggeration to make a point about landfills

• the author’s use of details to support his argument for paper bags

• the author’s use of description to provide personal experience on the topic

How does paragraph 2 support the author’s purpose?

• It compares the advantages of plastic bags to paper bags.

• It provides details about how plastic bags are manufactured.

• It explains how the way we use plastic bags harms the earth.

• It describes a new approach to solving problems caused by plastic bags.

Read the sentence from paragraph 3.

Is it more progressive to require people to use paper shopping bags rather than plastic ones?

Think about the meaning of the suffix -ive.

What is the meaning of progressive above?

• needing help

• being popular

• growing larger

• becoming better

Write the Written Response Answer at the bottom of your page. Do it LAST!

Explain how the author supports the argument that banning plastic bags in favor of paper ones is not a good solution to the problem of waste.

Use details from the article to support your response.

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Read the sentence from paragraph 4.

Scientists estimate that it takes four times as much energy to make a paper bag than to make a plastic one.

Read the analogy.

Estimate is to measure as sketch is to ______.

Which word best completes the analogy?

• trace

• guess

• hurry

• look

What is the purpose of paragraph 5?

• to help people decide which type of shopping bag will best fit their needs

• to list ideas about how the problem of shopping bag waste might be solved

• to introduce the problem that using paper bags is worse than using plastic ones

• to encourage stores to change the kinds of shopping bags they give to customers

“Paper or Plastic?” uses many facts and opinions to support its argument.

Mark the box that shows whether each of these sentences from the article is a fact or an opinion.

Groups:

(a) Fact

,

(b) Opinion

• Making paper bags involves the use of dangerous chemicals such as sulfur that are released

• It can take over 500 years for plastic bags to break down in a landfill

• Because people want to save money, this is a good way to encourage reusing their bags.

• Trying to be more environmentally conscious, people have created bags that are earth friendly.

Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question. Torin wrote a report about eating and cooking vegetables.

Read the beginning of the report and look for any changes he should make. When you finish reading, answer the questions that follow.

I Love Vegetables

¹ Vegetables are not only a very healthy food, but they also taste wonderful. ² Vegetables are not a favorite food for many kids. ³ Even as a young child, however, I liked any green food that had grew on a farm. ⁴ As a preschooler, I sob because I wanted carrots and beets when other kids cried for junk food or sweets. ⁵ Now, I have ate new and unusual vegetables. ⁶ I have discovered some wonderful flavors and some exciting ways to cook vegetables.

What change should be made in sentence 3?

• Change grew to grown.

• Change grew to grows.

• Change grew to grow.

• Change grew to growed.

Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question. Torin wrote a report about eating and cooking vegetables.

Read the beginning of the report and look for any changes he should make. When you finish reading, answer the questions that follow.

I Love Vegetables

¹ Vegetables are not only a very healthy food, but they also taste wonderful. ² Vegetables are not a favorite food for many kids. ³ Even as a young child, however, I liked any green food that had grew on a farm. ⁴ As a preschooler, I sob because I wanted carrots and beets when other kids cried for junk food or sweets. ⁵ Now, I have ate new and unusual vegetables. ⁶ I have discovered some wonderful flavors and some exciting ways to cook vegetables.

What change should be made in sentence 4?

• A Change cried to cry.

• Change sob to sobbed.

• Change cried to have cried.

• Change sob to have sobbed.

Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question. Torin wrote a report about eating and cooking vegetables.

Read the beginning of the report and look for any changes he should make. When you finish reading, answer the questions that follow.

I Love Vegetables

¹ Vegetables are not only a very healthy food, but they also taste wonderful. ² Vegetables are not a favorite food for many kids. ³ Even as a young child, however, I liked any green food that had grew on a farm. ⁴ As a preschooler, I sob because I wanted carrots and beets when other kids cried for junk food or sweets. ⁵ Now, I have ate new and unusual vegetables. ⁶ I have discovered some wonderful flavors and some exciting ways to cook vegetables.

What change should be made in sentence 5?

• Change have ate to ates.

• Change have ate to eat.

• Change have ate to eats.

• No change is needed.