Vocabulary Context Clues

The teacher anticipated the first day of school with much longing.

• looked forward to
• dreaded
• regretted

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

The girl's hypothesis  was that someone was watching her, but she couldn't prove it yet.

• conclusion
• working theory
• mystery

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CCSS.RL.6.4

Her mother said: "I forbid you to got the store- it is raining outside"

• dread
• hope
• not allow

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The glass plate shattered when it hit the floor and broke into a thousand pieces.

• bounced
• break into pieces
• made a loud noise

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The striations in the rock showed that water used to flow along the channels in the rock.

• stripes
• circles
• holes

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

"[My parents] took me to the Toronto Sick Children's Hospital,"Normandin said. "I don't remember much else. I remember being in an isolation ward looking out the window at my father."

• an award for being lonely
• room or section in a hospital
• a mental hospital

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

You might not have heard of polio before. That's because 50 yearsago, on April 12, 1955, the U.S. government approved the use of a vaccine that stopped people from getting the disease. Invented byJonas Salk, the vaccine all but eradicated polio worldwide.

• a cure for a disease
• an infectious virus
• increase immunity to a particular disease

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.4

You might not have heard of polio before. That's because 50 years ago, on April 12, 1955, the U.S. government approved the use of a vaccine that stopped people from getting the disease. Invented by Jonas Salk, the vaccine all but eradicated polio worldwide.

• got rid of
• an era of dictation
• to produce in large amounts

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4