Comprehension

What is comprehension?

• Reading for pleasure
• Reading for understanding
• Something Ms. Johnson's forces me to do
• A math equation for y=mx+b

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Blood is a miracle liquid.  It flows to every part of the body.  Some blood cells carry food and oxygen to body organs.  Other blood cells kill germs and help stop cuts from bleeding.  People can die if they lose a lot of blood or if their blood cells get sick.  Doctors sometimes give people fresh blood to save their lives.  This paragraph mainly tells:

• how many blood cells are made by the body
• how important blood is
• why people can die from loss of blood
• why sick people are sometimes given blood

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

A bat can fly at night or even with its eyes closed.  But if you cover its ears, it can't fly very well.  Bats make sounds that people can't hear.  The bats find their way by listening to these sounds as they echo off things.  Bats even locate insects to eat by following the sounds that bounce off the bugs.  People use their eyes, but bats use their ears to know where they're going.  This paragraph mainly tells:

• how bats use sound
• what things bats often eat as food
• how bats fly toward people
• how people can hear the sounds of bats

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

A connotation is...

• the emotional or cultural meaning attached to a word
• states one thing while meaning the exact opposite.
• a series of words that begin with the same letter.
• None of the above

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

An allusion is...

• a word that makes sound or  noise in a sentence.
• exaggeration used to reinforce a point
• is an indirect or passing reference.
• a feeling that a writer creates in a literature or poetry.

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

This involves putting a passage a source and turning it into your own words. (I partly did this)

• Paraphrasing
• Imagery
• Descriptive
• Persuasive

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is stating one thing while meaning the exact opposite?

• Antonym
• Point of View
• Irony
• Synonym

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

"Jack cooked food for the family." Which one is the verb

• for
• cooked
• food
• Jack

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Before the United States was a country, it was a group of English colonies. Until 1793, England didn't really bother the American colonists. The people handled their business the way they wanted. However, England had a lot of war debts to pay. Some of the money was owed because England had defended the colonies in the French and Indian War. Citizens who were living in England wanted taxes to be lowered. The king decided to take more control over the colonies to get the money to pay off the debts. He started a new tax for the colonies. After being left to make their own decisions for so long, some of the colonists did not want to give up control They did not want to pay high taxes.

Why did England start demanding taxes from the colonists in America?

• They are mean and nasty and just wanted the Americans to suffer

• England needed to sell more tea to the Colonies

• England had a lot of debt from wars

• The American Colonies were not making enough money for England

Living things adapt to their environment so they can survive. An organism adapts when it develops a behavior that makes it more likely to survive. It can also adapt by forming a physical characteristic or body part that helps it survive.

What does the word adapt mean in the first sentence?

• changing its eating and sleeping habits

• changing its behavior or its physical characteristics

• changing its environment or habitat

• giving birth to multiple offspring