M9W2 Assessment - The Mystery of the Wet Lizards - HMH

Which sentence from the article includes an opinion?

• He thought they might be drinking rainwater that collected on their backs and flowed to

  their mouths.

• When the water reaches the head, the lizard opens and closes its jaws as it drinks.

• No one had reported seeing a thorny devil drinking, except in a bowl.

• The scientists checked on the lizards daily, and when rain fell, Wade crawled to look for them.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What is the main purpose of the three subheadings?

• to summarize Wade’s life as a scientist

• to ask questions that Wade wanted to answer

• to describe the stages in Wade’s search for evidence

• to name the different places where Wade did his research

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Read the sentence from paragraph 4.

If a thorny devil is placed in a shallow bowl, with only its belly touching the water in the

bowl, the water creeps up through channels in the lizard’s skin.

Which meaning of channels is used above?

• pathways in a surface

• deep sections of rivers

• ways to send information

• straits between other water ways

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Read the sentence from paragraph 7.

Next, Wade dripped harmless colored water onto the lizards’ backs.

Think about the suffix -less. What is the meaning of harmless above?

• without heat

• without scent

• without weight

• without danger

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which two facts support the claim that some lizards use their back and scales to harvest

rainwater?

Select two answers.

• Some lizards are found in the southwestern part of Australia.

• Australian thorny devils use the channels between their scales to pull water onto

  their skin.

• Wade’s lizards weighed more after he dripped water on them.

• Australian thorny devils and Wade’s horned lizards do not stand in the same position

  while in the rain.

• Wade’s lizards did not move when he sprayed them with the water sprinkler.

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

How does the photograph help the reader understand the article?

• It shows how much water a Texas horned lizard can harvest.

• It shows how fast a Texas horned lizard moves across the desert.

• It shows how the jaws of a Texas horned lizard move up and down.

• It shows how a Texas horned lizard stands and uses its scales to harvest water.

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

In A Melody from the Woods:

What change should be made in sentence 2?

• Change Grandfathers house to Grandfathers’ house.

• Change Grandfathers house to Grandfather’s house.

• Change Grandfathers house to Grandfathers’s house.

• No change is needed.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In A Melody from the Woods:

What change should be made in sentence 4?

• Change trees branch to trees’s branch.

• Change trees branch to trees’ branch.

• Change trees branch to tree’s branch.

• No change is needed.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

In A Melody from the Woods:

Read sentence 5.

When the wind blows, the wings of all seven birds move, making a rustling sound like wind

moving through trees.

How should the underlined part of the sentence be written to show possession?

• the bird’s wings

• the birds’ wings

• the birds’s wings

• the birds wings

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

On a Note card Answer the question below:

How does the test described in paragraph 14 support Wade’s ideas about Texas horned

lizards?

Use details from the article to support your answer

• Done

• Done