MyView Unit 2 Week 4- Tracking Monsters

Which text feature on page 334 best introduces the main idea of the text?

• photo

• side bar

• heading

• italicized words

On page 335, which detail helps the reader understand the relationship between the "trackers" and the "monsters"?

• The beeps are getting louder. That means she's nearby. It's a Gila monster.

• Being careful to avoid the prickly pear and fish hook cacti, he sets down his gear near a hump of granite.

• The beeping box and the antennae are radio telemetry instruments.

• The sun-hatted hikers circle the big rock and begin inspecting its crevices and cracks.

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CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

On page 336, which detail develops a central idea presented earlier in the text?

• A large adult lizard may eat only a few times a year.

• They're nocturnal much of the year and spend a lot of their time in underground burrows.

• Gila monsters are big lizards, the only other remaining "monster lizard" species is the beaded lizard.

• Gila monsters make their homes in the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

On page 338, which detail in the text supports the heading "Warning!"?

• They have venom glands in their lower jaw.

• While Gila monsters look tough, they aren't very aggressive and don't go after people.

• Gila monsters were the first protected reptile in Arizona.

• Theres's no antivenom treatment.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.8

After analyzing the photo on page 339, identify the details that help the reader understand the concept shown in the image.

• During spring and early summer, when males are out looking for mates, they will wander more than females, generally.

• Kevin's team has implanted tiny transmitters inside eight different Gilas.

• As she snoozes undisturbed in her burrow, they write down the lizard's GPS position.

• Is Gila #291 looking for a place to spend the winter?

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.SL.5.2

CCSS.SL.5.4

Which detail supports the text features found on page 340?

• The rock that #291 is currently under gets a lot of sun on one side.

• The beeping radio inside the tracked Gila monster also estimates its body temperature. The warmer the body temperature, the faster the radio beeps.

• That way they know how much warmer or cooler the animal is in the various shelters it uses throughout the year.

• Gila monsters don't have permanent homes.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.8

What do the text features found on page 341 help the reader understand?

• Citizen science is important for involving the community.

• The key is to taking a photograph of the Gila monster that clearly shows its markings.

• The hikers are volunteers taking part in BioBlitz, a twenty-four-hour scientific inventory of every species in Saguaro National Park.

• They've posted colorful signs at kiosks near trails and. in visitor centers.

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CCSS.RI.5.8

On page 342, which context clues help the reader define the word microchip?

• Sometimes a researcher receives a photo from a citizen scientist that matches a Gila monster they've tagged...

• ...looks like a metal grain of rice. It's the kind of ID...

• The Gila monster project has been tagging the large lizards with...

• Every new Gila monster that the field biologists come across gets a tag.

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

Which sentence from page 343 helps the reader understand how researchers collect data about Gila monsters?

• Kevin puts the softer end of the plastic tool on the lizard's closed mouth-- and gives it a nudge.

• The punishing desert sun is sinking toward the distant mountaintops, but it's still 85°F.

• The giant piled-up pink and beige boulders soak up heat like pizza stones.

• Kevin doesn't seem to break a sweat, however, even though he's got one hand firmly gripping a Gila monster.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

What is the author's purpose for writing this text?

• To explain how Gila monsters move about and where they live during the winter season.

• To persuade others that implanting a radio transmitter inside a Gila monster is the best way to protect them.

• To provide information about how citizens scientists have made an enormous impact on the process of tracking lizards in Arizona and Mexico.

• To give information about Gila monsters and to persuade others that they are worth studying and protecting.