Reading Review Unit 1

​READING SKILLS REVIEW

​We have learned a lot of reading skills so far this year! Let's review and practice them together.

We use context clues to find out the meaning of an unknown word by using "clue" words around it in the text

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​CONTEXT CLUES

​Sometimes the context clues are in the same sentence as the unknown word, and sometimes they are in sentences before or after it instead

​We need to figure out the meaning of the unknown word AND be able to list the "clue" words that helped us figure that meaning out

Multiple Choice

Ti'Adra had never seen Sandra before. At first, Ti'adra felt somewhat uneasy. As Sandra talked, Ti'Adra's misgivings melted away. She couldn't tell if it was the twinkle in her eye or the soft drawl of her voice, but she was really warming up to the girl!

What does it mean to have misgivings in this paragraph?

• To donate something

• To be uncertain about something

• To not like someone

• To accidentally give something

Multiple Choice

Bugs can smell some things from up to a mile away. The two antennae on a bug are also able to detect motions and tastes. Small hairs cover the antennae. These hairs are used to recognize smells, movements, and tastes.

Which word best helps the reader understand the meaning of the word detect in this paragraph?

• Recognize

• Use

• Cover

• Antennae

• Anything included in a passage besides the words themselves

• This can include things like headers, pictures, captions, bolded words, maps, glossaries, timelines, graphs, tables, and diagrams

• When you see a text feature, always ask yourself:

  • What kind of text feature is it?

  • What is it showing me or giving me information about?

  • WHY did the author include it here?

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​TEXT FEATURES

Multiple Choice

A long tail extends out the backside of an armadillo. It too is covered by tough skin. Sometimes, an armadillo uses its tail to keep its balance when standing on its two back feet. The armadillo does this to get higher in the air in search of food or danger.

The picture of the armadillo on its tail was most likely included:

• To show how an armadillo looks for a place to sleep

• To show how an armadillo uses the bands around its body to stay safe

• To show how an armadillo prepares to eat a meal

• To show how an armadillo searches for food

Multiple Choice

What kind of text features helps to organize information by topic throughout a passage?

• Headers or subheaders

• Captions

• Timelines

• Photographs

• Main idea can be used for a whole passage OR a single paragraph

• The main idea is what the passage or paragraph is MOSTLY about

• Main ideas are stated in the TOPIC SENTENCE, which are usually toward the very beginning of the paragraph or passage

• Supporting details are facts and information (listed AFTER the main idea) that tell us more information about the the main idea

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​MAIN IDEA & SUPPORTING DETAILS

Multiple Choice

No one country owns Antarctica. This vast continent of ice and snow makes up about one tenth of the land on planet Earth. Antarctica is the coldest and windiest place on Earth. Temperatures can plunge to over 100 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Winds can race across the surface of the ice covered continent at speeds of well over 100 miles per hour. This harsh land has few plants and animals and even fewer people.

• Many countries would like to claim Antarctica as part of their country.

• Windy places can make temperatures very cold.

• Antarctica is not home to many permanent residents.

• Antarctica is a huge and very cold continent.

Multiple Choice

Which words from the paragraph are the MOST helpful to us in determining the correct main idea: Antarctica is a huge and very cold continent?

• Speeds of well over 100 miles per hour

• vast continent of ice and snow

• harsh land

• No one country owns

Multiple Choice

Win Shirts for Your School!

Enter our contest, held from April 8 until April 22, and try to win enough t-shirts for everyone in your school! That’s right! Everyone in your school could be wearing one of our special, colorful t-shirts if you are the rand Prize winner. The second place prize is enough t-shirts for every student at your grade level at your school. The third place prize is enough t-shirts for everyone in your class at your school.

What information can you find in this paragraph?

• How many people total can enter the competition

• Details about the choices for colors and designs of the t-shirts

• What you will get if you are one of the top three winners

• How long your t-shirts will take you arrive at your school

• This is all about thinking like a WRITER instead of a reader!​

• You may have to infer why the author wrote an entire passage (to persuade, entertain, describe, inform, or explain)

• You may have to infer why an author included a specific line, sentence, text feature, or piece of information in the text

AUTHOR'S PURPOSE

Multiple Choice

Tiny hummingbirds are pollinators. They are attracted to red flowers. They also like flowers that hang upside down. A hummingbird sticks its long, skinny beak into the flower. Pollen sticks to its face when it does this. Then the pollen rubs off on the next flower the bird visits.

What is the author's main purpose for writing this selection?

• To persuade the reader to grow flowers for hummingbirds

• To inform the reader about pollen

• To inform the reader about how hummingbirds help pollinate plants

• To tell in interesting story about a hummingbird

Multiple Choice

The Fight for Yosemite

Rock formations a mile high. Trees three times as long as a blue whale is long. One of the world's highest waterfalls. Many people in the 1800s knew of these national treasures in the area of California. They wanted the area to be untouched. They wanted to make sure the wildlife had a home. Their work led to an act of Congress signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864. The Yosemite Grant protected the area for people to enjoy. It also changed history.

Why does the author include the underlined information?

• To tell how large the area of land is

• To make people want to go camping there

• To show that the area of land has special, natural features

• To explain the process for protecting the land