Bill Bowerman’s New Shoes/ Getting Glasses/ Action Business Fair

Bill Bowerman's New Shoes:

1. 1. The meaning of sentence 6 can be improved by changing them to—

• coaches

• races

• runners

• shoes

Answer explanation

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2. 2. What is the BEST way to combine sentences 10 and 11?

• A. Bill and Phil became partners, they started their own shoe business.

• B. Bill and Phil became partners when they started their own shoe business.

• C. Bill and Phil became partners, so they started their own shoe business.

• D. Bill and Phil became partners and then started their own shoe business.

Answer explanation

Both C and D work, BUT let's think about it like building with LEGOs.

Answer Choice C: "Bill and Phil became partners, so they started their own shoe business."

The word "so" makes it sound like becoming partners made them start the business. Like, SNAP, they were partners, and BAM, they opened a shoe store! But the sentences we started with don't actually say that. Maybe they became partners for a different reason, and later they decided to make shoes. We don't know for sure.

Answer Choice D: "Bill and Phil became partners and then started their own shoe business."

This sentence is like saying, "First, they clicked their LEGOs together to become partners, and then they built a LEGO shoe store." It tells us what happened in what order, but it doesn't say one thing caused the other. It's just what happened.

Since our original sentences only told us they became partners and also started a business (not that one made the other happen), sentence B is a better fit. It's like using the right LEGO instructions for what we know to build a new sentence!

3. 3. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 1?

• Change was to is

• Insert a comma after Portland

• Change Oregon to oregon

• Make no change

Answer explanation

<<< --- Take a look at this poster. You have to have a comma in between a CITY and a STATE.

Portland, Oregon - Portland is a city and Oregon is the state that the city of Portland is in!

4. 4. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 13?

• Change partners to partner

• Change puts to put

• Change their to they're

• Make no change

Answer explanation

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5. Bill Bowerman's New Shoes - 5. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 25?

• Change were to was

• Change foots to feet

• Change world to World

• Make no change

Answer explanation

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Getting Glasses:

1. 1. The meaning of sentence 13 can be improved by changing They to—

• The classmates

• The doors

• The glasses

• The letters

Answer explanation

Let's figure out why "The letters" makes more sense than "They" in sentence 13.

Sentence 12 tells us what Louisa was doing: "Back in the classroom, she tried to read a book." So, what would be blurry in a book? The letters, of course!

"They" is a pronoun, and pronouns are used to replace nouns (people, places, things, or ideas). In this case, "they" is trying to replace something from the previous sentence. Since Louisa is trying to read a book, and a book is made up of letters, "they" is really trying to stand in for "the letters".

Using "The letters" makes the sentence clearer and easier to understand. It directly tells us what Louisa sees as blurry. It's like saying, "The letters were blurry, but Louisa didn't care." Much better, right?

Getting Glasses:

2. 2. What is the BEST way to combine sentences 19 and 20?

• A. She loved and tried them on!

• B. She tried them on, loved them!

• C. She tried them on, she loved them!

• D. She tried them on and loved them!

Answer explanation

Let's think about it like trying on new shoes!

A. She loved and tried them on! This is a little mixed up. You usually try shoes on before you decide you love them, right? It's like saying you ate your dinner and then you were hungry!

B. She tried them on, loved them! This one is better! It shows she tried them on first, and then loved them. It's like the order we do things in real life.

C. She tried them on, she loved them! This is okay, but it's a little repetitive. It's like saying "She tried them on, she tried them on and loved them!" We don't need to say "she" twice.

D. She tried them on and loved them. This one is also good! It's short, sweet, and to the point. It tells us the order she did things without repeating any words.

Getting Glasses

3. What is the BEST way to rewrite the idea in sentence 21?

• Her classmates were at school. And they wanted glasses, too.

• Her classmates wished they had glasses like she did. The next day.

• The next day, her classmates wished they had glasses like she did.

• The next day she was at school her classmates wished they had glasses like she did.

Answer explanation

Let's pretend Louisa is trying to read a storybook. Sentence 12 tells us she's trying to read a book. Books are made of words, and words are made of letters.

Sentence 13 says "They were blurry." But what's blurry? Is it the whole book that's blurry? No, it's the tiny little shapes that make up the words, and those are the letters!

So, instead of saying "They were blurry," it makes much more sense to say "The letters were blurry." It's like saying, "The puzzle pieces were tricky," instead of "They were tricky." It's just clearer and easier to understand!

Getting Glasses - 4. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 1?

• Delete the quotation marks after today

• Insert a comma after today

• Insert a period after today

• Make no change

Answer explanation

If the dialogue tag comes after what someone says:

Put a comma before the tag, inside the quotation marks.

• Example: "I want ice cream," Susie said.

It's like saying, "I want ice cream pause said Susie."

Getting Glasses - 5. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 22?

• Change learned to learn

• Change sometimes to sometime

• Delete the comma

• Make no change

Answer explanation

"Bad things turn out to be good" is one idea, one complete thought. It's like one item on Louisa's "lessons learned" list. We don't need a comma to separate parts of one single idea. The comma makes it sound like "bad things" and "turn out to be good" are two separate things, but they're actually part of the same thing!

So, we take out the comma to show that "bad things turn out to be good" is all one complete idea.