Reecly) Oe enue \" reac! ¥¢ Guide with Answer Ke VY Scanned with CamScannerANSWER KEY 4-5 How does a person become president of the United States? + D_ (Recalling Details) . C (Using Content Clues) © (Determining the Sequence of Events) A. (Recognizing the Main Idea of a Passage) A. (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) (Persuasive Wrting) Answers will vary but should be persuasive and be in the form of a direct address. 6-7 How do animals hide in plain sight? B (Recaling Details) B (Using Context Cues) A. (Identifying Causeand-Effect Relationships) Recognizing the Main dea ofa Pasage) B (Understanding Mutiple-Meaning Words) (Expository Writing, Descriptive Writing) Answers. will vary. ‘Who was the Wizard of Menlo Park? 89 1. D (Recalling Details) 2. A. (Using Context Clues) 3. 4 5. 6. Poe wue Doe wee D (Recalling Details) A. ((dentiying Cause-and Effect Relationships) B (Identifying Cause-and fect Relationships) (Expository Writing) Answers will vary. Students should draw examples from the passage when discussing the invention of the elec- tric light, and they may need to do research when collecting facts on the tele- phone. Arguments in favor of the electric light may highlight the invention’s impor- tance to the quality of life throughout the world. Arguments for the telephone may highlight the importance of communica- tion across distances. 10-11 What is it like on Venus? C (Recalling Detail) B_ (Using Context Clues) C (Recalling Details) A. (dentiying Cause-and-tffect Relationships) ‘A. (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) (Narrative Witing) Answers will vary. Soke 16 2-1 1 2. 3, 4 5. 6. 14-15 What Is color blindness? i, 2. 4, 4, 5. 6. 13 What was the Hindenburg? C (Recalling Detail) . C (Using Context Clues) 1D. (Recaling Details) . D_ (Determining the Sequence of Events) 'D (Understanding Multiple-Meaning Words) (Natttive Writing) Answers will vary. D (Recalling Details) B (Using Context Clues) A. (ecaling Detais) D (Identifying Cause-anct-ffect Relationships) 1D (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) (Expository Writing, Descriptive Writing) Answers will vary but should use information gathered from the text. 16-17 When did women first vote? B_ (Recalling Details) B_ (Using Context Cues) C (Recalling Details) C (Determining the Sequence of Events) ‘A. (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) (Gaxpository Witng, Persuasive Writing) Answers will, vary. Dae eye 18-19 How do insects survive the winter? 1. C (Recalling Details) 2. B (Using Context Clues) D (Recalling Details) B (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) D_ (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) (Expository Writing) Answers will vary. Students may note migration as a similarity. They may note the following differences: Insects do not watch over eggs, they die before the eggs hatch, they spin cocoons rather than build nests, or they reduce their numbers and live off stored food. aaee 20-21 What is the Great Wall of China? 1, A. (Recaling Detail) 2, A (Using Context Clues) 3. B. (Recalling Details) Reading for Comprehension—Level E Scanned with CamScanner4. B- (Identifying Cause-and-tffect Relationships) 5. C_ (Understanding Multple-Meaning Words) 6. (Expostory Writing) Answers will vary, Students may note that the Chinese were highly Intelligent, capable of impressive feats of engineering, and concemed about the safety of their people. 22-23 What Is the largest flower In the world? 1. D (Recalling Details) 2. B_ (Using Context Clues) 3. A. @ecaling Deas) 4. B (Determining the Sequence of Evens) 5. A (Making Valid Inferences and ‘Drawing Conclusions) 6. (Epostory Writing, Descriptive Witing) Answers will vary. Students may describe the polll- nation of flowers by insects or birds, air plants that require a host tree, or desert ‘animals that get their only water from plants. 24-25 What was the Pony Express? . A. (Recalling Details) . D. (Using Context Clues) .B (Recalling Details) . A. (Identifying Cause-and-Etfect Relationships) 5. B (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 5. (Expository Writing, Persuasive Writing) Answers will vary. Students should use examples from the passage to make their arguments and word the essays to read like advertise- ments. 26-27 How do birds migrate? . C (Recaling Details) . A. (Using Context Clues) . B_ (Recaling Details) 1. (Recognizing the Main Idea of a Passage) 5B (Understanding Multiple-Meaning Words) 5. (Expository Writing) Summaries should be one paragraph long and contain all key points of the passage. 28-29 Who was Thurgood Marshall? 1. B (Recalling Details) 2. B (Using Context Clues) 3. C (Recalling Details) 4. C. (Determining the Sequence of Events) 5. D (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 6. Expository Writing, Descriptive Writing) Answers will vary. Students may use a compare-contrast organization in their responses. wpe ae pe anew Reading for Comprehension—Level E 30-31 How do fingernails grow? 1. © (Recaling Details) 2. D_ (Using Context Cles) 3. B (Recalling Detais) 4. A (Identifying Cause-and-Eect Relationships) 5. B_ (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 6. (Expository Witing) Answers will vary. Students may note these similatities: Nails and claws grow in the same way and can be clipped without disturbing tissue. Students may note these differences: Animal claws ate used for defense and digging, and cats! laws are retractable. 32-33 Who made the first chewing gum? 1. D (Recaling Detais) 2. B_ (Using Context Clues) 3. A. (Recaling Detais) 4. B_ (dentifyng Cause-and Effect Reationships) 5. © (Understanding Mutile-Meaning Words) 6. (Expository Witing, Descriptive Witing) Answers will vary. 34-35 What is REM sleep? + B_(Recaling Details) - © (Using Context Cues) D (Recaling Detais) D (Recognizing the Main Idea of a Passage) CC (Making Vaid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) (Expository Writing, Descriptive Writing) Answers will vary. 36-37 How do crash-test dummies save lives? D (Recaling Detas) B_ (Using Contest Cues) C Recalling Details) - C (identifying Cause-and-fect Relationships) .B_ (Making Valid nferences and Drawing Conciusons) «(Persuasive Writing) Answers will vary. Students should use details from the passage to sup- Port their arguments, writing essays that are both persuasive and in business letter format. 38-39 How do mountains form? B_ (Recaling Details) B_ (Using Context Clues) . C (Recalng Details) |. B_(Identying Cause-and-fect Relationships) 5. B._(Making Valid inferences and Drawing Condusions) 5. (Expository Writing, Descriptive Wiing) Answers will vary. ae eey pa eeyr Bexe an 7 Scanned with CamScanner40-41 What Is the only continent that humans have never lived on? «© (Recaling Details) . (Using Context Clues) .D. (ecaling Deas) . B (ening Cause-and-fect Relationships) (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 5 (xpastory Witna) Answers will vary. Students should use a compare-contrast organiza- tion in their responses. 42-43 How do olives get their taste? «Ceca Detail) . D- (ing Context Clues) . D. (ecaing Details) D. (etermiring te Sequence of Events) 5B. (Understanding Mutiple Meaning Words) (Expository Wing) Answers will vary. ‘Students’ responses should be sequential ‘and specific. ‘44-45 Who led 300 slaves to freedom? . A. Recalling Details) . A. (Using Context Cues) 3. C (Recalling Details) t. D_ (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) . A. (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) 5. (Narrative Writing) Answers will vary. Students’ stories should include details from the pas- sage to support their description of the experience. 46-47 Does sound travel on the moon? A. (Recaling Detas) . A, (Using Content Cus) . B (identifying Cause-and fect Relationships) . (Recognizing the Main idea of a Passage) 5. A. (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 5. (Expository Writing) Answers will vary. Responses may mention the difficulty aeeene pe Pane Ne Dawe pe Pane breathing and communicating with no air. 48-49 What was the Trail of Tears? . B (Recalling Details) . C (Using Context Clues) . B_ (Recalng Details) ‘A. (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) C (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) (Persuasive Writing) Answers will vary. Students’ letters should include examples from the passage to emphasize the unfair- ness of forcing the Cherokees to move, one eee 18 50-51 Is the roadrunner a real bird? 1. D (Recaling Details) 2. D (Using Context Clues) 3. B (Recalling Details) 4. A. (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Concusions) 5. B_ (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) 6. (Expository Witing, Descriptive Witing) Answers will vary, 52-53 Who were the cliff dwellers? 1. D (Recaling Detais) 2. C (Using Context Clues) 3. _D_ (Recaling Detail) 4, A. (dentifing Cause-and-tfect Relationships) 5. D (Understanding Mutple-Meaning Words) 6. (Expository Wing) Answers will vary. 54-55 What is a manta ray? 1, C (Recaling Details) 2. A. (Using Context Clues) 3. C (Recaing Detais) 4, B (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 5. C. (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) 6. (Narrative Witing) Answers will vary. Students’ descriptions should include specific details. 56-57 Who are The Ninety-Nines? 1. B-ecaling Details) 2. C (sing Context Clues) 3. D (Recaling Details) 4, A. (Determining the Sequence of Events) B_ (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) (Capostory Witing) Answers will vary. Students may note that it takes people a while to ‘accept anything that is different from their experience and custom; that men had tra- ditionally held positions of responsibility {n professions such as aviation, medi and law; and that few women tried to qualify as pilots. 58-59 How was Crater Lake formed? 1. D (Recaing Details) 2. A. (Using Context Clues) 3. D_ (Recaling Details) . C_ (Determining the Sequence of Events) 5. (Understanding Mutiple-Meaning Words) (Expository Witing) Summaries should be one paragraph long and contain all key points of the passage. 5 6. aanw Reading for Comprehension—Level E Scanned with CamScanner1 Whos w.. 1. B. (Recaling Detail) 2, C sing Context Cues) 3. C. (Recalling Details) 4. C Determining the Sequence of Events) ‘5. A. (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Coneusons) (@xpostory Witing) Answers will vary. Students may suggest that familiar subjects and personal experiences make it easlet for a writer to produce a more realistic view of a topic. 62-63 What are marsupials? D (Recaling Details) D (Using Context Clues) ‘A. (Recaling Details) CC (Identtying Cause-and fect Relationships) D (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) (Cxpository Writing) Answers will vary, Students will probably suggest that because of koalas’ size and cute appearance, people are drawn to them, 64-65 What is bluegrass music? .D (Recalling Detais) . C. (Using Context Clues) 5. D_ (Recaling Details) . B_(Determining the Sequence of Events) 5. C_ (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Concusons) 5. (Expository Witing, Descriptive Witng) Answers will vary. 66-67 What are puffballs? 1. A. (Recalling Detail) 2. D (Using Context Clues) 3. A. (Recaling Details) 4. A. (Determining the Sequence of Events) 5. D_ (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) (Expository Writing) Answers will vary. Students may suggest that a puffball can be eaten when it is firm and white, like a mush- room. Students might suggest a dandelion as a flower that can be eaten; this would be similar to the puffball because of the changes it goes through as it matures. Students should set up this part of their Tesponses in a compare-contrast format. Se eepe Seber Reading for Comprehension—Level E 68-69 Who is |. M, Pel? 1. C (Recaling Details) 2. B (Using Context Ces) 3, D.Recaling Details) 4, B (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conchaions) 5. A (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) 6. (Expository Wtng) Answers will vary. ‘70-71 What is an ani? 1. C (Recaling Detais) 2. D_ (sing Context Ces) 3. D.(Recaing Details) 4. A. (Determining the Sequence of fvents) 5. B_ (Making Vaid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 6. (Expository Witing) Answers will vary. Students ‘may suggest that anis have evolved in this way because it assures the survival of their species. Students also may suggest that in most human families, men and women share in the duties of caring for their child, 72-73 Who was “The Yellow Kid"? 1, B (Recaing Det) 2. C (Using Context hes) 3. D (Recaing Details) 4. C. (Determining the Sequence of Events) 5. A. (Making Vaid Inferences and Drawing Conchsions) 6. (Narative Witing) Answers will vary. 74-75 How does a snake move? 1. B (Recaing Details) 2. B (Using Context Cues) 3. B_(Ientiying Cause-and fect Relationships) 4. A. (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Concsos) 5. D.(Undestan ing Words) 6. (Expostory Wing) Answers will vary. 76-77 Who was Otui the Iceman? 1. A. (Rcaing Deas) 2. D. sing Content Cues) 3. (Recalng Details) 4. D_ (entifing Cause-ad fect Ratonsips) 5. C. (Maing Vaid Inferences and Draing Conn) 6. (Expostory Witing) Answers will vary. Students should use a compare-contrast organiza- tion in their responses. 19 Scanned with CamScanner78-79 What was a quagga? 1. B_@ecalng Details) 2. B (Using Context Clues) 3. A (Recalling Details) 4. ©. (Adentiing Causeand-Effect Relationships) 5. D_ (Making Vali Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 6. Gxpostory Writing, Persuasive Writing) Answers will vary, Students may suggest that punish- ments for killing endangered animals should be much more severe, and that there should be more captive-breeding programs and retuming animals to the wild, Essays should be persuasive and in letter format. 80-81 How did dogs save Nome, Alaska? 1. D Qecalling Details) 2 A (Using Context Clues) 3. © (Recalling Detait) 4. A. (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 5. B_ (Understanding Multiple-Meaning Words) 6. (Narrative Witing) Answers will vary. Students should use information from the text as a basis for their stories. ‘82-83 How are porcupines born and raised? 1. C (Recaling Details) 2. A. (Using Context Clues) 3. B_ (Determining the Sequence of Events) 4. D_ (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 5. D (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) 6. (Expository Writing) Answers will vary. Students may infer that animals could get an infec tion from germs on the quills, or they might die if the quills hit a vital organ or stick in their jaws and prevent them from eating. ‘84-85 What did Thor Heyerdahl prove? 1. A (Recaling Details) 2. D (Using Context Cues) 3. C. (Recaling Detais) 4. A. (Determining the Sequence of Events) 5. B_ (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 6. (Expository Writing) Answers will vary. Students’ responses should be sequential and specific. vo = 86-87 How tough are badgers? 1. B. (Recaing Details) 2. D (Using Context Clues) 3. B_(Recaling Deta) 4. C (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Ce 5. A. (Understanding Mutiple Meaning Word 6. (Expostoy Wing) Answers will vary. 88-89 Where do new words come from? 1. A. (Recaling Details) 2, D_ (Using Context Clues) 3. C (Recalling Details) 4. A. (Recognizing the Main Idea of a Passage) 5. C_ (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conchsions) 6. (Persuasive Witing) Answers will vary. Students should write persuasive essays that are in letter format. 90-91 What do hurricane hunters do? 1. C (Recalling Details) 2. A. (Using Context Clues) 3. C. (Recalling Detais) 4. D_ (Determining the Sequence of Events) 5. A. (Making Valid inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 6. (Expository Writing) Answers will vary. 92-93 What is Death Valley? 1. B_(Recaling Details) 2. C (Using Context Clues) 3. B (Recaling Details) 4, A (Determining the Sequence of Events) 5. C_ (Making ValdInferences and Drawing Conclusions) 6. (Naratve Writing) Answers will vary. Students should use information from the text as a basis for their stories, 94-95 What are“smart” buildings? 1. D (Recalling Detaik) 2. C (Using Context Cues) 3. _D_(Recaling Details) 4. B (Making Valid Inferences and Drawing Conclusions) 5. B. (Understanding Multiple Meaning Words) . (Expository Writing) Answers will vary. Students may note that exact-scale models are built and subjected to earthquake simulations of varying magnitudes. a Scanned with CamScanner