Benchmark Unit 9 Week 1 "From Tree to Baseball Bat"

This reading passage is what type of text?

• Fiction

• Informational

• Persuasive (Opinion)

According to paragraph 1, what is this text all about?

• Playing baseball on a Saturday afternoon

• Playing baseball with a new bat

• Facts about how bats are made

A billet is...

• a shaved tree trunk

• a tree that has been cut into a long cylinder

• tree bark

After the bats are made at the factory, what happens?

• They are transported to stores.

• They are used at baseball games.

• They are hauled to a sawmill.

How is the wood shaped into a bat?

• by a person

• by a robot

• by a machine

The bats are weighed and measured so that....

• kids can use them

• every bat is the same size

• they can be loaded onto a truck

The photographs help me understand...

• How bats are measured and weighed

• How trees are cut down to make bats

• How machines shape billets into bats

Which are compound words? Choose all that apply.

• baseball

• bat

• sawmill

• wooden

Which is the correct way to break the word billets into syllables?

• bill-ets

• bi-llets

• bil-lets

In which word does the ending -ed make the /ed/ sound?

• hauled

• shipped

• sanded