From Here to There

Word Cloud

How have we improved communication over time?

Spotlight Benchmark

As you read, you will identify text features and explain how they add to the text's meaning.

Word Cloud

What do the circles on the timeline represent?

Multiple Choice

Which part of the text tells you about a radio message?

• The timeline entry for 1837

• The timeline entry for 1844

• The timeline entry for 1876

• The timeline entry for 1901

Multiple Choice

How was the radio different from the forms of electronic communication that came before it?

• The radio needed wires to transmit the messages

• The radio could send out coded sequences

• The radio could send messages wirelessly over thousands of miles

• The radio would point to letters to spell out words

Multiple Choice

Look at the entry from 1973. How do you know what the entry is about?

• The text in blue (title) tells me what it is about

• The bolded text (heading) tells me what it is about

Multiple Choice

How do the photographs and captions for "Cell Phones Then and Now" relate to the timeline entries?

• They tell me more information about the weight of the cell phone and the smartphone.

• They tell me about the access to internet that the smartphone provided.

• They tell me who invented each device.

• They tell me more about electronic mail message communication.

Multiple Choice

How did the World Wide Web improve communication?

• It allowed people to download ringtones

• It allowed people to store and share information on the internet

• It allowed people to send electronic currents

• It allowed people save on their electric bill

Multiple Choice

What does the chart or timeline from "A Visual History of Communication" show?

• Important events and inventions in communication technology

• Important events and inventions in cooking technology

Multiple Choice

What do the headings or dates on the timeline from "A Visual History of Communication" show?

• How the events happened

• When the events happened

Open Ended

How did communication develop from the telegraph to the smartphone? In your response, include at least four developments from "A visual History of Communication". Tell about the text features you used to find and understand the developments.

Now we will read more about the telegraph system in the story "Live Wires".

Utah

Vocabulary

Utah became a state in 1848. Rugged terrain and a lack of transportation made travel difficult. People in parts of the state were isolated, isolated comes from a Latin word that means "island". Find the word isolated in paragraph 2. Raise your hand if you think you know what the word isolated means?

Multiple Choice

What did long distance instant message look like in the 1800s? Reread paragraph 4 and 5 to find your answer.

• Carriers used the US post office to send letters to people via horse and carriage.

• Operators used a code of dots and dashes to send messages over wires.

Sending a message with Morse Code was quicker than other types of communication over great distances at the time. Look for the first letter in your name. How many dots and dashes does it have?

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Morse Code

Multiple Choice

What did telegraph operators do for work?

• Send and receive messages using a telegraph machine

• Ride the trains delivering messages

Multiple Choice

How did the telegraph machine impact the social lives of the operator?

• The telegraph allowed them to read quicker by memorizing the codes.

• The telegraph machine allowed them to write faster as they received codes.

• The telegraph allowed them to make and maintain long distance friendships.

• The telegraph machine allowed them to talk a lot in person during their work hours,

Multiple Choice

What does it mean if something grew in popularity?

• It became taller and bigger

• It became more liked and used

Multiple Choice

Look at paragraph 11. What happened in the early 2000s?

• The telegraph workers went on strike

• The telegraph became the primary form of communication

• The telegraph made its big break

• The telegraph fell out of use

Multiple Choice

What type of text feature was mainly used in this story?

• Charts and Timelines

• Pictures and Captions

Multiple Choice

What did the sloth proposal cite as evidence to prove a sloth emoji was needed?

• fan pages

• movies

• matches in search engines

• all of the answers mentioned

Multiple Choice

What does the heading "A Growing Language" before paragraph 2 tell the reader about the text that follows?

• Emojis help people who speak more than one language

• Emojis help people learn the names of animals in other languages.

• Emojis are the main way that some people now communicate.

• Emojis are a type of communication that is expanding with use.

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from paragraph 3 of the text.

Sloths are one of the slowest mammals on Earth, and the emoji would represent being tired slow, or late.

What is the meaning of the word represent?

• show

• cause

• prevent

• encourage

Multiple Select

Which two choices best describe what the text feature labeled "Top 5 Emojis" on page 355 helps the reader understand

• how certain emojis are created

• who gives awards to certain emojis

• how emojis have changed over time

• why some emojis become popular

• what some popular emojis look like

Multiple Choice

Which paragraph does the photograph of Rauouf Alhemedhi best support?

• paragraph 2

• paragraph 3

• paragraph 4

• paragraph 5

Multiple Choice

What feature would best support the central idea of the sidebar "Emoji Designer"?

• a list of the most popular emojis created in 2008

• a picture of the first emoji Angela Guzman designed

• the date on which the Unicode Consortium was formed

• a description of the emojis that were popular in Japan in 1999