MUG Leaping Lizards

MUG Practice - Leaping Lizards

​Take a look at the following chart BEFORE I show you the question that goes with it.

Multiple Choice

These notes will best help Ashley -

• organize the information from most to least important

• maintain focus on her topic and include important facts

• decide which kinds of lizards to include in her report

• keep the attention of readers by telling exciting facts

Multiple Choice

Which is the best way for Ashley to write sentence 2 so it has an appropriate tone?

• People can be freaked out by a lizard that can leap.

• People seem to think that a lizard that can leap is peculiar.

• People think sometimes that a lizard that leaps is really wacky.

• People seem to think that a lizard that flies around like a superhero is not cool.

Multiple Choice

How can sentence 4 and 5 best be combined?

• Malaysia, Thailand, and parts of China are counties where gliding lizards live in tropical jungles.

• In tropical jungles, in countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, and parts of China, gliding lizards live.

• Gliding lizards live in tropical jungles, but they live in countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, and parts of China.

• Gliding lizards live in tropical jungles in countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, and parts of China.

Multiple Choice

What is the best way for Ashley to add more specific details to sentence 7?

• Their skin is a leathery mixture of greens, browns, and blacks that allows these creatures to blend in with their surroundings.

• Their unusual skin is green and brown, and this colorful mixture allows these creatures to blend with their surroundings.

• Their skin is so dark that it allows these creatures to blend with their surroundings.

• Their colorful skin allows these creatures to blend with their surroundings. .

Multiple Choice

Ashley decides to add an additional detail after sentence 9. Which of these would be best?

• Lizards can be seen catching insects in jungles.

• The ribs are soft and flexible so they can move.

• Studies show that the ribs on the lizard are small.

• The color of the flap matches the skin of the lizard.

Multiple Choice

In sentence 14, how is spent correctly written?

• spending

• spends

• spend

• as it is

Multiple Choice

In sentence 18, how is creature's correctly written?

• creatures's

• creatures'

• creatures

• as it is

Multiple Choice

In sentence 20, how is climb flat smooth tree trunks correctly written?

• climb flat smooth, tree trunks

• climb flat, smooth, tree trunks

• climb flat, smooth tree trunks

• as it is

Multiple Choice

In sentence 22, how is a more safer place correctly written?

• a safer place

• a most safest place

• a safest place

• as it is

Multiple Choice

In sentence 26, how is grows correctly written?

• growing

• grow

• grown

• as it is