Informational Text

Does key idea and details provide an object summary of the text?

• Yes 
• No 

Craft and Structure helps the reader determine what?

• Meaning of a word 
• Meaning of a phrase 
• Meaning of a word/Phrase
• Neither 

Does integration of knowledge and ideas help the reader analyze a case in which two or more text provide conflicting information?

• Yes
• No

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades?

• 4-7
• 6-8
• 5-8
• 3-8

Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the ?

• Text 
• Title 
• Summary 
• All of the 

How does the author help reader understand the term tensile strength?
Big marine predators that try to snack on a hagfish get a nasty surprise. When threatened, the slender hagfish releases enough snotty goo to gag a shark. Materials scientists from Douglas Fudge’s laboratory at the University of Guelph in Canada have now found a way to create strong, stretchy fibers from the slime. Hagfish slime contains tiny fibers that give it strength and help keep it from tearing apart. (Those fibers also help gag any shark or other hungry predator.) The fibers are made of proteins similar to those found in fingernails and hair. (Proteins are often called the “building blocks of life.”) The Canadian scientists used the slime proteins to create threads about as long as an unsharpened No. 2 pencil, but much skinnier. Hagfish threads have remarkable tensile strength: That means they can stretch a long way before breaking — almost as far as spider silk can, explains Fudge. What’s more, he notes, fabrics from hagfish threads would be more environmentally friendly than many modern materials, like nylon (which comes from petroleum).

• The author uses words around the word in the text 
• The author gives the definition off right away
• The author doesn't give off the definition and leaves the reader clueless