3rd Quarter Assessment

Polar bears are in trouble.

• They

• them

• their

• theirs

"The Mona Lisa is a painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It was painted between 1503 and 1506. Today, it is thought to be the most well known painting in the world. You can see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. About six million people view the famous painting each year."
What text structure is used here?

• Description
• Problem/Solution
• Cause/Effect
• Compare/Contrast

"The beloved children's writer, Shel Silverstein is well known for his three books of children's poems. The first book, Where the Sidewalk Ends was first published in 1974. The second book, A Light in the Attic, came out seven years later in 1981. The final book, Falling Up, was published in 1996."

What is the text structure?

• Description
• Cause/Effect
• Problem/Solution
• Sequence

Moths and butterflies often look similar. Both have large wings and long, thin bodies, and both start their lives as caterpillars. However, butterflies usually have brighter colors on their wings than moths. Also, butterflies are most active during the day, while moths are generally creatures of the night.
What words signal the author's organizational pattern?

• Moths, butterflies
• Both, similar, however, while
• long, thin
• creatures

Some of the students in room 52 were upset because they never got to use the balls and jump ropes  at recess. Another group of kids always got them first and they refused to share. When Mrs. Kelly found out what was going on, she developed a rotation system so that everyone would have a chance to use the equipment. 
What is the text structure?

• Problem/Solution
• Compare/Contrast
• Cause/Effect
• Sequence

When farmers use fertilizer to fertilize their crops, the left over fertilizer can run into nearby ponds, streams and rivers. The result is that the nutrient-rich fertilizer causes way too much algae to grow. All that algae is bad for the plants and animals that live there.
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What is the text structure?

• Problem/Solution
• Compare/Contrast
• Cause/Effect
• Sequence

An earthquake that occurs under the ocean may cause a tsunami. A tsunami is a series of giant waves that can cause a great deal of destruction, as well as many deaths when it hits the coast. So, if you are ever at the beach and hear a tsunami warning siren, you should run to higher ground as fast as you can.
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What is the text structure?

• Description
• Compare/Contrast
• Cause/Effect
• Sequence

What type of text structure?
 Lightning and Thunder - Lightning and thunder are related events.  Lightning is a sudden, violent flash of electricity that occurs between a cloud and the ground or between two clouds in the sky. A lightning bolt can be several miles long and can be straight or forked. It is very hot, with an average temperature of 34 000 degrees Celsius. This causes the air around the electric bolt to expand, producing lots of sound energy. It is this sound energy that we hear as thunder.  So, lightning and thunder are caused by the same event, but lightning is light energy, or electromagnetic energy, whereas thunder is sound energy.  Thus, we see lightning and hear thunder.

• Cause and effect
• Problem and solution
• Main idea
• Compare and contrast

A text written in order by time

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Chronological

• Description

Something that stands for or represents something else

• Caption

• Idiom

• Diagram

• Symbol