"What Jo Did" Comprehension

Where is the setting of this story?

• Jo’s driveway in the early morning

• the school playground around noon

• Jo’s neighborhood in the early evening

• Jo’s driveway late at night

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

How can you draw the conclusion that Jo’s dad isn’t very tall?

• He couldn’t touch the bottom of the net, even with the help of a broom.

• He used a stool to help put up Jo’s basketball net.

• Jo said she was taller than her dad.

• He had never played basketball before.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Why did the boys ask Joanna to play basketball with them?

• They did not have enough players. 
• They knew she has just moved to town. 
• They wanted to use her basketball. 
• They knew she was a good player. 

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Why did playing with others take some getting used to for Jo?

• The boys were not sharing the ball with her.

• She had never passed nor received a passed ball before.

• She was used to being the captain of the team.

• She had never played basketball before.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

What is the most likely reason that Joanna hid the fact that she was a girl?

• She wanted to prove that girls could play ball as well as boys. 
• She wanted to embarrass the boys by showing how good of a player she was. 
• She thought the boys would not believe that she knew how to play. 
• She thought the boys would not let her play if they knew she was a girl. 

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

It was funny that the red-haired boy told Joanna that T.J. can "jump pretty high" because he did not know...

• how high Joanna could jump.

• how nervous Joanna was about playing.

• how long T.J. had been playing.

• how high T.J. could actually jump

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RL.5.1

How was Joanna's basketball rim different from most?

• It had a backboard.
• It did not have a net.
• It was 16 feet high.
• It was wider than the ball.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

Why did Joanna not want the boys to know she had never heard the word "dunk"?

• They might figure out that she had never played with other players. 
• They might refuse to let her play. 
• They might realize that she was a girl. 
• They might think she did not know much about basketball. 

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4C

What was the climax of this story?

• Joanna learned to throw and catch the ball.

• Everyone realized that Jo was Joanna.

• The boys asked Joanna to play basketball with them.

• T.J. apologized to Joanna.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.4.4

Why were the boys shocked when Joanna's cap fell off? 

• She was holding on to the rim. 
• She had made a perfect dunk. 
• They discovered she was a girl. 
• They realized how short she was. 

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RF.3.4C