ELA Benchmark Review

What is a summary?

• a short retelling of the main ideas or events of a passage

• what the text is mostly about

• establish exactly

• to examine or look closely at something

What was Max's mom planning to do?

• Taking Max to the Zoo

• Taking Max to a movie

• Taking Max on a picnic

• Going to the mall

This passage is mostly about?

• teens enjoying wearing uniforms

• popular fashions being expensive

• school uniforms are a good idea

• students working many hours at jobs

Which sentence states a central idea of paragraphs 1 and 2? (RI.6.2 Central Idea)

• Streams are normal parts of natural settings.

• Streams are vital resources for people.

• Streams are only found outside of cities.

• Streams are different in various landscapes.

What is the author’s purpose for using the phrase “Often they lie low” in paragraph 2?

• to provide an example of an urban stream

• to show that urban streams are often polluted

• to contrast an urban stream with a rural stream

• to show that urban streams are not easily seen

Read the sentence from paragraph 3. Streams, stream banks, and the low lands around them provide important habitat for animals and plants that share the urban/suburban landscape with us. What does the word habitat mean as it is used in the sentence?

• area

• shelter

• environment

• territory

How does the author introduce the idea of urban streams?

• by pointing out that urban settings also have streams

• by getting readers to focus on the characteristics of all streams

• by preparing readers to think only about rural streams

• by presenting readers with the transition from rural to urban streams

Read the sentence from paragraph 5. Instead it hits impervious surfaces like hard pavement and rooftops and has no chance to infiltrate the soil. What is the meaning of the word impervious as it is used in the sentence?

• affected

• exposed

• cracked

• resistant

If all this extra water is diverted directly into a stream channel, several important changes will occur.

What is the meaning of the word diverted as it is used in the sentence?

• pushed

• brought together

• sped forward

• redirected

Based on the information in paragraph 8, what inference can be drawn about water movement in cities?

• Natural waterways have disappeared.

• There are fewer natural waterways now than in the past.

• Natural waterways are overloaded with rainwater.

• Flooding is caused when man-made waterways overflow.