Ready Common Core Lesson 18 Independent Practice as Assessment Answer Sheet

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1. What idea do “How We Speak” and “What are Vocal Cords?” share?

• Several parts of our bodies work together to let us speak.
• We can make sounds because we have vocal folds.
• Your mouth and tongue help you form vowels.
• Air travels from the lungs to the voice box.

2. Choose one detail from each source to support the answer in Question 1.

• “Speaking is possible because we have special parts in our bodies: lungs, throat, voice box, tongue, and lips.” (“How We Speak”)
• “What happens next is that we use our throat, tongue, mouth, and lips to shape the sound into vowels and consonants.” (“What Are Vocal Cords?”)
• “When we speak, we release air from our lungs.” (“How We Speak”)
• “The larynx, often called the voice box, contains vocal cords that stretch across the opening.” (“How We Speak”)
• “Actually, vocal cords are vocal folds, or many layers of tissue that vibrate in your larynx.” (What are Vocal Cords?”)

3. Which word in the paragraph below that means “capable of bending easily without breaking.”

• anatomy
• flexible
• different
• speak
• vocal

4. What information in “What Are Vocal Cords?” helps the reader understand why dogs can’t speak, as stated in “Dogs and Birds: Making Noise”?

• People can make higher sounds by tightening the vocal cords and lower sounds by relaxing the cords.
• Even though we don’t often think about how we say words and sentences, we don’t learn to speak automatically.
• People move their mouths to form words from the sounds made by the vocal cords.
• The vocal cords of humans are not like the strings on a guitar because they have a V-shape.

5. Using information from all three sources, explain how humans and animals make sounds. What similarities and differences are pointed out in the three sources?