Discovering Dinosaurs Test

Vocabulary Choose a word that has a similar meaning as the underlined word. His teeth decayed from eating too many sweets and not brushing them twice a day.

• rotten
• healthy
• alive
• normal

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Vocabulary Choose a word or phrase that has a similar meaning as the underlined word. The dinosaurs are now extinct.

• still alive
• moved away
• died out
• missing

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

In the vocabulary word extinct, what prefix do you see? What does it mean?

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CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

Vocabulary Choose a word or phrase that has a similar meaning as the underlined word. The students went on a field trip to the museum to see fossils.

• a dig site
• a place that exhibits things from the past
• desert
• ocean

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Vocabulary Choose a word that has a similar meaning as the underlined word. While digging in the backyard, the children found what looked like fossils.

• rocks
• training wheels
• remains of a once living thing
• sand

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

When my nephew grows up, he wants to be a paleontologist. Describe his job title?

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What is the main idea of this selection?

• Fossils are cool
• Fossils can tell us about the past.
• Scientists are careful with fossils.
• Fossils are old.

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

Provide keywords that show a sequence text structure.

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

Give one detail from the passage that helped you determine the main idea.

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

What caused the scientists to rush to "Whale Hill"?

• It was a great vacation spot.
• They wanted to see what life was like there.
• They wanted to study the fossils found there.
• They played rock, paper, scissors to determine their next travel destination.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1