Reading Inventory Practice

Reading Inventory Practice

Ms. Ball

Poll

How many skips do you have on the Reading Inventory?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Select

What should you do if you dont know the answer?

• use your skip

• guess

• log off

Multiple Choice

Do using skips count against you or lower your score?

• Yes

• Maybe?

• No

Multiple Choice

"It's so hard for me to get up and down the stairs these days," Mrs. Cottler said. She had already said it three or four times that afternoon. "It's my legs. I'm in pretty good shape except for these old legs."

Mrs. Cottler's legs are _____ .

• weak

• special

• lean

• comfortable

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

Spiders help people. Spiders help control the number of insects in the world. They eat insects that carry illnesses and destroy crops. Spiders also help keep gardens free of insects. They kill insects in people's homes, too.

Spiders are _____ .

• useful

• strong

• lucky

• beautiful

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

Oprah already knows most of what her producer is telling her. She has done her homework. Each night before she goes to bed, she goes over her notes for the next day's show.

Oprah is _____ .

• rude

• lively

• prepared

• shy

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

My hand had two holes in it. It felt numb as I scrambled down the cliff and into the dugout, but it didn't hurt. I had no trouble using the paddle, and I thought maybe the snake wasn't a copperhead after all. Then my hand began to swell and my lips started to tingle. Then I got sick to my stomach.

The snake must have been _____ .

• dead

• harmless

• venomous

• friendly

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

He'd been wanting a pet for so long that he didn't much care what this creature was—cat, dog, or piranha. She would do just fine. And, besides, a cat would be easier to hide than a dog. For a while, anyway. Cats didn't chase cars and they didn't have to be kept on leashes and, most important of all, they made very little noise.

He would _____ for a cat.

• train

• perform

• settle

• fail

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

I spoke to her in Spanish, but she shook her head to let me know that she did not understand. Then I spoke, using the few words I remembered from a song my mother had once sung to me. Those words she might understand, but they meant nothing to her. She spoke back and her words were strange to my ears. We stood helplessly, our hands touching, gazing at each other. She looked like my own mother, as I remembered her, only younger.

I was trying to _____ .

• scream

• communicate

• sleep

• apologize

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

All this rainy day I worked with the women as we made moccasins in the longhouse, and I did not lay eyes upon him. I looked around the camp whenever I had the excuse to fetch water or wood. But he is nowhere to be seen.

I could not _____ him.

• blame

• leave

• find

• warn

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

I woke up in the morning, about 0400 hours, with the worst pain I've ever had in my life. I thought I was having an attack of appendicitis. I was doubled up in bed and had to crawl out of the bed to get to where Peewee was sleeping. I shook him, and when he opened his eyes I told him I needed help. He got up right away and went to get a medic.

He could tell I was _____ .

• angry

• sick

• content

• happy

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

For Regaldo, and countless other young Hispanic Americans, the loss of the Tejano music star hit hard. Selena had been a symbol and a role model to them. She was evidence that with hard work, talent, and determination dreams can come true. When Selena was killed, they responded as if a family member had died.

They _____ her.

• remembered

• mourned

• escaped

• screamed

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

What springs to mind when someone talks about a desert? Do you think of scorching heat, sizzling sand, and wind-swept dunes? Some deserts in warm regions do have large areas of sand and sand dunes. These areas are known as sand seas, and they appear in deserts in Australia, Africa, and Asia. However, not all deserts are hot and sandy. Some deserts are stony. Some are even cold and icy! Many scientists believe that most of Antarctica is a desert. They classify a desert as an area that is dry and receives an average of less than 10 inches (25 cm) of rain a year.

Desert _____ vary from continent to continent.

• temperatures

• expeditions

• politics

• techniques

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

They moved through the door together, Dalia clutching Paps' arm like a vise. As they got closer to the car, she could hear the panic in her own heart as it thumped erratically against her ribs. She knew he was there.

Dalia was _____ .

• funny

• angry

• scared

• strong

• SKIP

Multiple Choice

Our teacher passed out blue books and then fiddled around a minute, waiting for the two of them to show up. They didn't. So she passed out the test, face down, and held us up a minute more, still hoping to see Shilling and Fickett arrive.

The test was _____ .

• simple

• long

• delayed

• forgotten

• SKIP