STAAR reading paired passage: Cattle Trails

The word abundant in paragraph 2 of the informational text means-

• bundled
• tall
• plentiful
• barren

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

Both the poem and the selection are about

• raising cattle
• cattle drives
• longhorns migrating
• trading herds of cattle

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CCSS.RI.1.9

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.K.9

CCSS.RL. 6.7

CCSS.RL.K.6

What is the speaker doing in the poem?

• telling about why he stopped working on the trail.
• telling about why he loves life on the trail
• telling about how he lost his herd and his fortune
• riding home on the Chisholm trail

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CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

CCSS.RL.3.5

Which poetic structure is found in the poem?

• repetition
• short line length
• free verse
• rhymed couplets

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CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

Paragraphs 1 and 2 are mainly about-

• how the first cattle trails began
• how the lognhorns made their way to the Texas plains
• how the first cattle came to North America
• how the longhorns got their name

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CCSS.RI.K.2

CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

The author of the article included the map to-

• show how the cattle migrated North
• show where the Texas railroads were built
• show how each trail linked to a railroad
• show the cattle trails that were used in the 1870's

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

From the poem, the reader can conclude that-

• life on the trail was difficult and exciting
• life on the trail was boring and uneventful
• the horses did not get along with the cattle
• the cattle were not hard to manage

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CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read this sentences from paragraph 8.
Joseph McCoy was an enterprising businessman.
What evidence from the selection best supports this claim?

• In 1867, Joseph McCoy decided that a railroad line should be built somewhere on the Kansas plains
• He convinced the Kansas Pacific Railroad to build a track from its main railroad line to the town of Abilene, Kansas. 
• INstead of giving up, McCoy boufht the town of Abilene.  He built his own stockyard, added a barn, and office for his business, and a hotel for the cowhands. 
• McCoy's work paid off.  In the summer of 1868, more than 70,000 Texas longhorns came up to the Chisholm Trail to the stockyard in Abilene. 

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CCSS.RI.K.2

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.K.1

CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.RL.K.2

McCoy probably ran ads in Chicago papers to- 

• show people in the big city how exciting Abilene was
• to attract cattle buyers from the Chicago meat-packing plants
• to get people to move to Abilene to help drive  cattle. 
• to attract tourists for his new hotel 

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

In the 1860's, what ultimately caused Texas cattle ranchers to first drive their cattle North?

• Civil War
• the demand for beef in New Orleans
• the demand for beef in the rapidly growing Eastern cities
• the demand for beef in Missouri 

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9