Dogs Process Language RI.2.4,2.5,2.6

What is the meaning of the word “intonation” as it is used in the sentence? (RI 2.4)

• A. Tone, voice, used to speak to them

• B. Hoping to trick them

• C Clever and well done

• D. Reward center in the brain

How does this figurative meaning of the phrase “hoping to trick him into thinking it’s going to be fun” from paragraph 3 contribute to the central meaning of the text? (RI 2.4)

• A. It describes the literal problems faced by dogs who sits totally still for seven minutes in an MRI scanner.

• B. It illustrate mental, physical, and emotional problems encountered by dogs according to the researchers findings.

• C. It conveys research that dogs process language the same as humans do using the left hemisphere.

• D. It gives an example to why your pup isn’t fooled.

Read the section below from the introduction.

Let's say you tell your dog he's going to the vet. You use an excited tone of voice, hoping to trick him into thinking it's going to be fun. As it turns out, your pup isn't fooled. It doesn't matter how you say it, he still knows exactly where he's going, and he's sad about it.

What is the purpose of these sentences in the introductory section of the article? (RI.2.5)

• To provide a factual account of how dogs communicate with their owners on a typical day.

• To provide a personal experience of the authors’ to demonstrate how all dogs react when going to the vet.

• To provide a detailed explanation of how the dogs in the image reacted when they were taken to the vet for screening.

• To provide an anecdotal example of what the reader may have experienced in order to connect the reader to the subject.

Which sentence from the text reveals the author’s primary point of view or message? (RI.2.6)

• Humans domesticated dogs — that is, made them pets inside homes — at least 15,000 years ago.

• It had already been established that dogs respond to human voices better than wolves, which are related to dogs.

• Using the brain activity images, the researchers saw that the dogs processed the familiar words regardless of tone of voice.

• The researchers trained the dogs to sit totally still for seven minutes in an fMRI scanner, which measured their brain activity.

Part A: How does the section, “Processing Words And Analyzing Tone,” contribute to the reader’s understanding of the article? (RI.2.5)

• It shows that dogs were studied by putting golden retrievers and border collies into a scanner at a university in Hungary.

• It explains how images of dogs' brains show how they use a process similar to humans to understand language and tone.

• It develops the idea that researchers trained dogs to learn words and measured how often they could match objects to words.

• It informs the reader that scientists believe that even before people domesticated dogs, the animals were able to understand language.

6. Part B: Select the two details from the section that BEST supports your response in Part A. (RI.2.5/RI.1.1)

• “That's exactly how people analyze tones, the study said.”

• "So dogs not only tell apart what we say and how we say it, but they can also combine the two."

• “It doesn't matter how you say it, he still knows exactly where he's going, and he's sad about it.”

• “the dogs analyzed the tone of voice in the auditory, or ear-related, regions of the right hemisphere.”

• “The researchers said it's unlikely that domesticating dogs led them to understand and process human language in this way.”