5th Review Leap Day

Rachel Carson’s World of Wonder

(1) Imagine you’re a scientist studying the sea life along the Maine coast. It is early morning and the tide has gone out. A deep pool of cold water, trapped by rocks at low tide, looks like a good place to study the animals that live on the seashore. You step into the tide pool and feel the water cover most of your legs. Soon you are watching a crab. It slowly dances around the edge of the tide pool, as if moving to some inner music only it can hear.

Read the sentences from paragraph 1.

        Soon you are watching a crab. It slowly dances around the edge of the tide pool, as if moving to some inner music only it can hear. 

 

Why does the author most likely include the sentences above? (Answer below as an open-ended response.)

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

(Text continues from previous question)

(2) Perhaps you even discover one of the crab’s enemies. You might find sea flowers (anemones) with stinging tentacles, green sea urchins, or tiny fish called blennies. You lose track of the time. All you are thinking about is the community of small creatures living in your tide pool.

(3) Finally, you start to climb out of the water. But your legs are so cold you can’t feel them. This happened one morning in 1951 to biologist Rachel Carson. Her excitement and wonder about the mysteries of the sea kept her in the water too long. Luckily, a friend helped her out of the tide pool and found her a warm blanket.

What is the meaning of the word "mysteries" as it is used in paragraph 3? (Answer this as a typed free-response below.)

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

What skill is needed/targeted in the following type of STAAR Reading question:

Which word from the passage does the sentence above help readers better understand?

• Comprehension (understanding the text as a whole)

• Diction (word choice the author displays)

• Plot Analysis (looking closely at the events that occurred in the selection/text)

• Vocabulary Knowledge (how many words you know or how you use text around unfamiliar words to help you)

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Name the type of skill this reading question targets or requires you to access:

Which best describes how the passage is organized?

• a) cause and effect

• b) sequence of events

• c) problem and solution

• d) compare and contrast

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

Caring for Penguins at the Aquarium

(1) About a month ago, my sister Becky began working at an aquarium. (2) She has a truly wonderful job caring for the penguins there. (3) Her days are long but rewarding. (4) She cleans the room that the penguins live in. (5) She also cleans the passage that leads to their outdoor area.

Which is the BEST way to combine sentences (4) and (5) to create a single sentence with a compound direct object (predicate).

• She cleans the room that the penguins live in and she also cleans the passage that leads to their outdoor area.

• She cleans the room that the penguins live in and also washes the passage that leads to their outdoor area.

• She cleans the room that the penguins live in and scrubs the passage that leads to their outdoor area.

• She cleans the room that the penguins live in and the passage that leads to their outdoor area.

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

She feeds three different kinds of food: krill, squids, and small fish called sardines.

Where should the indirect object them be placed in the sentence?

• after She

• after feeds

• after food:

• after krill,

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

Which sentence from paragraph 2 of the article is an example of a comparison that the author uses to help readers understand how quickly soil is carried by the wind?

(1) It’s common to see a swipe of dust, dirt, or sand stirred up by a gust of wind. (2) A black blizzard is the same experience multiplied many times over. (3) Such storms are powered by high winds. (4) Like water flowing in a river, fast air currents pick up and transport loose, dry soil. (5) Lighter particles are swept up and carried for miles. (6) Heavier particles are pushed forward by saltation. (7) Saltation happens when blowing particles knock into stationary particles on the ground. (8) The blowing particles set them in motion, too. (9) Soon many particles bounce along by a series of skips and jumps. (10) Saltated particles can work together to nudge pebbles and other objects. (11) The nudging action is called creep. Saltation and creep come together to move massive amounts of material. (12) In September 2009, a giant dust storm moved five million tons of red outback soil through Sydney, Australia!

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

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CCSS.RI.7.5

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She cleans the room that the penguins live in and she also cleans the passage that leads to their outdoor area.

• This sentence is fabulously, correctly written as it is.

• This sentence is a fragment (not a whole sentence/not a complete thought).

• This sentence is a This sentence is a run-on (more than one sentence connected with a coordinating conjunction but missing a comma to separate the sentences).

• This sentence demonstrates the aspirational writing goal of being clear, focused, and non-repetitive in use of words.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The DIFFERENCE between these two sentences is:

• She cleans the room that the penguins live in and also washes the passage that leads to their outdoor area.

• She cleans the room that the penguins live in and scrubs the passage that leads to their outdoor area.

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

The type of reading question I really struggle with is:

• Vocabulary (homophones, synonyms, antonyms, analogies, multiple meaning words)

• Organization or Structure of a piece of writing (how the author writes paragraphs or presents information in an intentional order)

• Figurative Language (similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperbole, symbolism, sarcasm, puns, sayings/morals, onomatopoeia)

  
  

• Elements of Plot (exposition, rising action, climax, red herrings, suspense, flashback/flash-forward, falling action, resolution, POV, narrator)

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.4.4