Skill Drill Opportunity

What is the best example of the main idea of this text?

• All kids have the right to learn to read.

• Bishnu, Dinesh, and Ratna are good helpers to the people in their community.

• Bishnu, Dinesh, and Ratna helped thousands of Nepalis get an education, earn money, and receive healthcare.

• We should all do what we can to help others.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which is a supporting detail that best supports the main idea?

• There was only school in Nepal when Bishnu was young.

• The organization, HANDS, helped women and children learn to read and write, taught them how raise farm animals and make special cards that could be sold, and provided a health care center.

• Bishnu, Dinesh, and Ratna all worked their entire lives to help people.

• Dinesh couldn't believe that people in his own country had such poor living conditions.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is the main idea of paragraph 8?

• Goats like oranges.

• The villagers were happy to have goats.

• Dinesh and Ratna liked raising goats and oranges.

• Dinesh and Ratna gave the villagers a way to make money.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which of these would NOT be a supporting detail of paragraph 5?

• Dinesh went to college.

• Dinesh learned how to speak English.

• Dinesh was able to travel around Nepal.

• Dinesh really liked to learn new things.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What can you infer in paragraph 4?

• Bishnu was more concerned about his kids getting an education than he was about getting in trouble for breaking the law.

• Bishnu's kids were very smart.

• The teacher from India did a great job of teaching Bishnu's children.

• Bishnu was the main reason that education was finally allowed.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What can you infer from paragraph 11?

• Tofu is delicious!

• Before Ratna helped, it was almost impossible for the people in this village to see a doctor.

• The people in the village hardly ever got sick or needed to see a doctor.

• Living by a river can be really difficult.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What can you infer about this text as a whole?

• Every person in Nepal can now read.

• Nobody wants to be a teacher in Nepal.

• Every classroom in Nepal is in need of repairs.

• Bishnu, Dinesh, and Ratna made an amazing, positive impact on the lives of the Nepalis.

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CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

From which point of view is this text written?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person - limited

• Third person - omniscient

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which pronouns are examples of what is used in first person point of view?

• you, yours, you're

• I, we, us

• he, she, they

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CCSS.L.1.1D

CCSS.L.3.1A

In third person - limited, the narrator...

• knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.

• is speaking to the reader directly.

• is the main character.

• knows the thoughts and feelings of one of the characters.

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6