U2W4 Whooping Cranes in Danger

Which sentence BEST explains what the article is about?

• The whooping crane flocks are disappearing.

• The whooping crane flocks are looking for new habitats.

• Scientists are trying to keep the whooping crane flocks healthy.

• Scientists are slowly trying to increase the number of whooping crane flocks.

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

Why were there only fifteen wild whooping cranes in 1941?

• Other animals attacked them.

• The whooping crane flocks got sick.

• People captured them and put them in zoos.

• People hunted them and took over their habitats.

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.3.3

According to the article, why did the second flock of whooping cranes have to be born in a new place?

• because their habitat was disappearing

• because that is where the scientists were

• because whooping cranes always have to be born in different places

• because whooping cranes always fly to where they were born for the summer

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

What did the caretakers' puppets teach the whooping crane chicks?

• how to fly

• how to walk

• where to eat

• where to sleep

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CCSS.RI.3.1

Based on the text evidence, what is the one thing that the puppets could not teach the chicks how to do?

• how to fly

• how to eat

• how to find a place to sleep

• how to get along with other cranes

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CCSS.RL.3.1

Read the dictionary entry below.

Noun: a result that was hoped for

Noun: somebody who is famous because of his or her achievement

Which of the following words is defined in the entry above?

• caretakers

• population

• success

• relatives

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.4

Which word means almost the SAME as the word recognize?

• forget

• praise

• punish

• remember

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5C