Horses Helping Others Reading Grade

Reread paragraph 4. What is the meaning of the word interactive in paragraphs 4? (Remember to use your context clues.)

• Acting apart from each other

• Acting rude to each other

• Acting like you don’t know each other

• Acting politely with each other

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What sentence from paragraph 4 helped you understand what interactive means?

• Through interactive games, the horses help the kids learn about trust, keeping themselves safe, and being sensitive to a horse’s feelings and body language.

• For a child who can’t walk, riding works her leg muscles.

• If kids are loud and too full of energy, the horse may not want to come over to them.

• Good program horses are calm, patient, and understanding.

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CCSS.RI.2.4

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Read this sentence from the article.

Erin uses games to help kids learn to communicate with horses.

Which words from paragraph 2 provide a clue to the meaning of communicate?

• “Can’t talk”

• ”need to learn”

• “With special needs”

• “Very high energy”

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CCSS.RI.2.4

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What is the meaning of the word sensitive in paragraph 4?

• Unfeeling

• Understanding

• Fearful

• Amazed

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What sentence in paragraph 4 supports your answer for the meaning of sensitive?

• Through interactive games, the horses help the kids learn about trust, keeping themselves safe, and being sensitive to a horse’s feeling and body language.

• If kids are loud and too full of energy, the horse may not want to come over to them

• They have to be used to people, loud noises, and sudden movements.

• But the next day, they’re back at it, patient as ever—- just another day at the office for these amazing horses.

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CCSS.RI.2.4

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Reread these sentences from paragraph 6 of the passage.

For a kid who has a hard time talking, Erin has her use words to command the horse. One boy uttered his first sentence, “Walk on, Woody,” while riding a horse!

What does the word uttered mean as used in this passage?

• Spoke

• Wrote

• Understood

• Heard

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CCSS.RI.2.4

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In paragraph 7, Erin states, “We focus on the kids’ abilities, not their disabilities.” What best describes what disabilities means?

• What someone can do.

• What someone can’t do.

• What someone says when they are happy.

• What someone says when they are sad.

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CCSS.RI.2.4

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From paragraph 7.

What clue strategy did you use to figure out what disabilities meant?

• Definition

• Example

• Inference

• Synonym

• Antonym

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CCSS.RI.2.4

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From the text, Which of the following DOES NOT support how working with horses help build confidence in children with special needs?

• Through interactive games, the horses help children learn about trust, keeping themselves safe, and being sensitive to a horse’s feelings and body language.

• ”The kids learn to protect their space, and also to invite the horse into their space.”

• For a child who can’t walk, riding works her leg muscles.

• Good program horses are calm, patient, and understanding.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

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The fly landed in my soup. What context clue strategy would help you to know what the word fly meant?

• Antonym

• Synonym

• Explanation

• Definition

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CCSS.RI.2.4

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