Reading Inventory Practice (300-700)

It was very hot. The humidity hung heavy in the air. It seemed that you could cut away large chunks of it if you had a knife. Breathing was difficult. It would have been easier to go up the street and walk the 27 blocks to the office. The weather was___________.

• frightening

• cool

• exciting

• uncomfortable

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

To someone on a skateboard the street is a playground. Skateboarders see a thousand possibilities. They imagine speeding down the sidewalk. They see themselves jumping over a fire hydrant. They want to fly over the steps and slide down the handrail. Skateboarders are _______________.

• adventurous

• funny

• tall

• intelligent

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Baltimore is famous for its neighborhoods. Some neighborhoods have miles of brick row houses. These houses are connected to one another. There is no space between them. Many of the row houses still have their original shiny, white marble steps. These types of neighborhoods are _____________.

• unique

• dirty

• lonely

• ordinary

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Abrupt silence. It lasted so long that she turned to see if Anwara had left the room. But there she sat, rigid as the churn beside her, clutching the plunger's handle as if her hands had frozen to it. Anwara was ___________.

• silly

• scared

• stiff

• smart

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

Davy walked carefully. He tried to match his steps to his uncle's long stride. He made more noise because he was watching his uncle instead of the leaves and twigs on the ground. He ____________his uncle.

• copied

• left

• called

• believed

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Anastasia's voice had become very small again, the way voices do, sometimes. "It's a poem of sounds," she said. "It's about little things that live in tidepools, after dark, when they move around. It doesn't have sentences or capital letters because I wanted it to look on the page like small creatures moving in the dark." She __________her poem.

• read

• explained

• memorized

• prepared

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

It was almost noon. Paolo left the side of the ship and started walking toward the tanks. He thought about his wife. He had phoned again, just before leaving Arzew. Once more Catalina had not been home. The maid had not known where she was. Then Paolo had phoned a dozen other places. but each time he had been told to try another number. The idea that he could never reach her saddened him. In the end, he had phoned home again to leave a message with the maid. He was unable to __________his wife.

• teach

• find

• promise

• visit

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Michelle was walking on air when she left the classroom. She rushed to find Randy and share the good news. She spotted him walking down the hall and shouted to him. He stopped and waited for her to catch up. Michelle couldn't control her____________.

• excitement

• sorrow

• anger

• fear

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3