Coming to America

Long ago many people who wanted to live in our country came to what place?

• Ellis Island

• Plymouth Rock

• Philadelphia

• Staten Island

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

How did immigrants travel to America?

• cars

• airplanes

• boats

• busses

True or false: Immigrants were provided with all the same food they were used to eating in their home countries.

• true

• false

Some immigrants traveled across the country to their new homes. How did they travel?

• busses

• planes

• cars

• trains

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

True or false: Ellis Island is open today but as a museum where you can learn about the people who came here.

• true

• false

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

The author of this book uses text features to help give the reader information. Which of these is a type of text feature?

• table of contents

• headings

• photographs

• all of these

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

An index is also a type of text feature. How does the index help the reader?

• it shows what things looked like

• it tells the reader about the photographs

• it gives you different topics and page numbers

• it tells about the important words in the book

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Which of these text features tell you what each section of the book will be about?

• bold words

• headings

• index

• maps

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Why do you think the author included a map in this book?

• to show us where each state is located

• to show where some of the immigrants traveled

• to teach us about trains

• to teach us what a compass rose is

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Write a word that describes how you think the immigrants may have felt. Give an example from the book to support your answer.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1