NWEA Reading Prep

Read the sentence from the story.

But the food maker on the spaceship had been broken for days.

What question does this sentence answer?

• How do food makers work on a spaceship?

• What kinds of food does the food maker make?

• Why does the food maker make only ice cream?

• What does a food maker look like?

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RF.2.4C

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RL.2.2

What can you tell about the setting from the picture and the story?

• It takes place outside a restaurant.

• It takes place on another planet.

• It takes place inside a spaceship.

• It takes place next to an ice cream shop.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

Read these sentences from the story.

“How can anyone get tired of ice cream?” Zelda’s sister Anka piped up.

“This is like a dream come true!”

What kind of speaking voice could you use to show Anka’s point of view in these sentences?

• an excited voice

• a quiet voice

• a mean voice

• a surprised voice

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.9

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.K.9

How does Zelda meet the challenge of having a broken food maker?

• She makes the best of having to eat so much ice cream.

• She remembers that people who fix meals are called “cooks.”

• She thinks about planting a vegetable garden on the spaceship.

• She comes up with the idea of cooking a meal themselves.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Read the central message of this story.

Even good things are best in small amounts.

Which detail from the story supports this central message?

• The food maker stops working the way it should.

• People in Zelda’s time no longer shop at grocery stores.

• Zelda and Anka get tired of eating ice cream every day.

• Zelda thinks it might be fun to be a human food maker.

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

In the first part of the story, Zelda and her dad have different points of view about the broken food maker. Read their points of view below.

Zelda is happy about the broken food maker. Her dad doesn’t like that it is broken.

Write one detail from the story that supports the sentence about Zelda and one detail that supports the sentence about her dad.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.9

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.K.9

Match the following

• ideas from that text that do not directly relate to the central idea

• central idea

• pieces of information that explain, define, or add to the central idea

• additional information

• a main point the author wants you to understand in a text

• supporting detail

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CCSS.RI.2.8