If Stones Could Speak Benchmark

What does impact mean?

• To hit really hard.

• The effect something has on something or someone else.

• To show or explain.

• What the text is mostly about.

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the meaning of the word support?

• To show.

• Why the author wrote the text.

• Help or assistance.

• The effect something has on something or someone else.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the meaning of the word convey?

• To show.

• To be.

• To explain the details.

• To help or assist.

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the central idea of a text?

• What the text never mentions.

• Why the author wrote the text.

• What we think about the text.

• What the text is mostly about.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the author's point of view?

• What the author can see while they are writing the text.

• The way the author writes the characters in the text.

• The way the author thinks about an idea or topic.

• How the author looks in the mirror.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What is the author's purpose?

• Why they wrote the text.

• Why they are living.

• Why they are an author.

• The way they view an idea or topic.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

What is the central idea of If Stones Could Speak?

• Mike and his team were successful the first time they tried to prove that Stonehenge was an important historical site.

• Mike wasn't afraid to question past archaeologists' work in order to understand the history of Stonehenge.

• Ramilisonina is an archaeologist who Mike asks to come to Stonehenge to look at it with "fresh eyes."

• It is important to have a willingness to trust your instincts, look at things in a new way, and test your new ideas.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What do you call someone who studies artifacts?

• Archaeologist

• Palentologist

• Herpetologist

• Biologist

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

The book, If Stones Could Speak, reveals the secrets of Stonehenge.

What does the word reveals mean in this sentence?

• Keeps the secrets.

• Makes up the secrets.

• Tells untrue things about Stonehenge.

• Exposes or tells the secrets.

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4