SRI Countdown #1

Of course it took another half hour to actually get him into bed. First he needed a drink of apple juice. Then he decided he was hungry and needed a bowl of cereal. Then he suddenly wanted to chat.

He was _____ .

• difficult

• tired

• smelly

• upset

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

"I wonder if you could repeat for me the telephone conversations you had tonight," he said. "Give them to me in as much detail as possible. Word for word, if you can."

He wanted them to try to _____ .

• call

• remember

• relax

• talk

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

I dumped out my pockets. In one I had a piece of DubbleBubble and an unwrapped sticky cough drop. In another I had two crumpled-up dollar bills and a bunch of coins. I counted out the coins. I had more than two dollars in change.

I had _____ in my pockets.

• money

• cookies

• flowers

• ice

Tags

CCSS.4.MD.A.2

We walk past a store that sells baked goods and ice cream. A sweet-smelling breeze reaches through the screen door. I look in my wallet. New guitar strings can wait.

I want to buy a _____ .

• treat

• game

• book

• painting

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

From the burning room, the fire roared up to the deck. There, a strong wind sent it racing across the ship. Soon the ship was on fire from one end to the other.

The fire was _____ .

• shrinking

• dying

• spreading

• cooking

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Clay looked at them. He knew Tornado was worthless. Why would Jack want to train a dangerous horse? Then he thought about Fawn's word "repay." "You want to train Tornado to repay the ranch for the stolen cattle?" Clay asked.

Clay tried to _____ .

• understand

• complain

• disappear

• pretend

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

You can skateboard on driveways, sidewalks, schoolyards, parking lots and other paved surfaces. Most street style skateboarding is done on concrete and asphalt. The surface can be flat or curved, smooth or rough. It can slope up a bank or run along the top of a wall.

Skateboarding is done on _____ surfaces.

• solid

• foreign

• mushy

• grassy

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Papa was always glad when Charlie returned. It was not only because Charlie was Papa's right-hand man. There was something special between Papa and this tall fellow, a man-to-man something. Of course Papa loved his family, but sometimes he felt lonesome as the only man among six females.

Papa and Charlie were _____ .

• friends

• passengers

• students

• actors

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

I'll never have a best friend like Paul again. I'll never have a great sitter like Rachel again. I'll never have my soccer team or my car pool again. I'll never have kids who know me, except my brothers, and sometimes they don't want to know me.

I am _____ .

• cheerful

• sad

• excited

• relieved

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Tornadoes,or twisters, can form on warm, spring days in some parts of the world.Twisters form when air begins to spin under a thundercloud. The air whirls around and around very fast. The whirling air stretches to the ground in a funnel shape. It twists so fast, it can lift up a car or a tree!

Only certain _____ lead to these occurrences.

• indexes

• reflections

• conditions

• projects

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4