Pre-History - Crayons in the Stone Age

According to the text, what did prehistoric people use special sticks for?

• to go out and fish

• to hunt for large animals

• to collect vegetables

• to make colorful drawings

What does the author describe in the text?

• what colors people used during the Stone Age

• how people made stone tools during the Stone Age

• how people got their food during the Stone Age

• what vegetables and plants people ate during the Stone Age

Read these sentences from the text.

About two million years ago, humans did all their work with stone tools. This period in prehistory is called the Stone Age. People during this time were hunters and gatherers. They went out and fished or hunted for large animals to eat. They also went out and gathered, or collected, vegetables and plants.

What can you conclude about the Stone Age based on this information?

• People did not grow their own food.

• People ate more plants than meat.

• People usually caught more fish than other animals.

• People had an easy life.

Based on the text, what probably took the most time for people during the Stone Age?

• making stone tools

• making art on cave walls

• recording the food they ate

• hunting and gathering

What is the main idea of the text?

• People gathered, or collected, vegetables and plants to eat.

• People caught fish and hunted other animals to eat.

• When people weren’t getting food, they sometimes created cave drawings.

• Cave drawings have taught people today a lot about the Stone Age.

Why did the author include the illustration in the text?

• so that the reader would know what some of the animals looked like

• to give the reader an example of what Stone Age cave drawings might look like

• to show the reader that people in the Stone Age probably used bows and arrows

• to show that people during the Stone Age only ate deer

According to the text, people of the Stone Age draw their drawings on​ (a)   .

• cave walls
• tree trunks
• pyramids
• clay tablets

During the Stone Age, hunting and gathering were probably a very important part of life.

How might Stone Age drawings show this?

Use evidence from the text to support your answer.