Making inferences with informational text

Who would most likely benefit from reading this selection? (Benefit means get the most from it.)

• a student planning a project on chickens

• a student doing research on animals

• a student finding information about chickens and snakes

• a student writing a report on animals that lay eggs

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

What might be inferred from the fact that insects are own their own as soon as they are born?

• A. Insects stay with their parents until they are old enough to live on their own.

• B. Insects are able to gather their own food and live on their own as soon as they are born.

• C. Insects eggs have hard shells that contain food for the growing baby inside.

• D. All eggs need to be in water to survive.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

Which animals have eggs but never lay them?

• A. Oviparous

• B. All mammals

• C. Insects

• D. All mammals but platypus and echidna

Which statement is true?

• The female seahorse carries eggs in a pouch on her belly.

• Platypus is a mammal that keep its eggs inside its body.

• The male penguin carries the eggs on his feet to keep them warm.

• All eggs are white.

Based in the information in this passage, how would you describe an egg?

• A. All eggs are hard, white and laid in nests.

• B. All eggs are laid in water.

• C. All eggs are a way for an animal to reproduce and make more animals like them.

• D. All eggs laid in groups that are used to protect the eggs.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.3

Which statement from the text is an opinion?

• Everyone knows that chickens come from eggs.

• Some birds use mud and sticks in their nests.

• Eggs come in many colors and textures.

• None of these statements from the texts are opinions.

Everyone knows that chickens come from eggs. Many other animals also come from eggs. Animals that make eggs that hatch outside their bodies are oviparous (ov-i-par-us). Eggs come in all sizes, from microscopic to extremely large. Some eggs need to be in the water, and some eggs stay on land.

Use context clues to determine the meaning of “oviparous”.

• A. Animals that make eggs that stay inside their bodies.

• B. An animal that gives live birth.

• C. Eggs

• D. Animals that make eggs that hatch outside their bodies.

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.RI.4.4

Why did the author most likely give this article the title

Extremely Exciting Eggs?

• A. Because eggs are exciting.

• B. To use alliteration and create interest.

• C. To ask a question to create interest.

• D. To compare and contrast eggs and exciting.

What did the author most likely want the reader to learn from the table?

• A. To learn that birds are the only oviparous animals.

• B. To learn that all land animals are non oviparous.

• C. To learn which animals are oviparous and which animals are non oviparous.

• D. To learn that all animals that give milk are oviparous.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2