Reading Passage with Questions

Direction: Read the text and then answer the questions Ever since he was six years old, Nick had wanted to get a puppy. His parents always refused. They said he wasn’t capable of taking care of a puppy. “You have no idea how much work a puppy is,” Dad said. “You would have to housebreak the puppy, train the puppy to obey you, and groom it, too.” “And then there’s taking the puppy to the vet, playing with it, and feeding it,” Mom added. “It’s not that I’m against having a puppy. But a puppy takes up a lot of time.” Nick couldn’t think of a way that he could convince his parents that he was ready for a puppy. Then, he got an idea. “If I volunteer at the animal shelter,” he thought, “I’ll bet Mom and Dad will see that I’m ready to take care of a puppy!” Which word helps to explain Nick’s behavior and mood at the end of the text?

• learned

• persuade

• enthusiastic

• help

What do you do when you first begin a new passage?

• Lay your head down and give up.

• Figure out what type of text it is.

• Draw pictures all around it.

• Get a dictionary to look up every unknown word.

What do you do as you read a passage?

• Think about your reading by asking questions, highlighting important parts, and jotting quick notes out to the side.

• Write down every single thought you have.

• Outline every paragraph with your pencil.

• Highlight all of the words that look important.

What do you do when you come to a passage that is on an unfamiliar topic?

• This is the end. Just give up and start crying.

• Think negatively the whole time you read it.

• Focus and jot about your thinking more. Make connections to what you do know to understand!

• Avoid the passage by going to the bathroom many times.

What do you do when you come to an unfamiliar word?

• Immediately ask for a dictionary and look it up.

• Skip past the word and don't do back to figure out the meaning.

• Stop reading completely and stare at the word until you know it.

• Use your context clues to read around the word and think of what would make sense based on what is happening in the text. Use a dictionary to check if you are not sure at all.

What do you do after you finish reading each passage?

• Immediately go to the questions and answers.

• Quickly jot what the text was mostly about.

• Re-read the whole passage again.

• Go to the restroom.

When you get to the questions and answer choices, you should -

• Read the question and answer choices without stopping.

• Skim through the question and pick an answer.

• Read the question, analyze the key words to figure out what the question is asking, and jot what you think before looking at the answer choices.

• Spend a lot of time writing down all of your thoughts around the question.

How do you determine the main idea of an informational text?

• Only look at the title.

• Use important evidence from all throughout the text to get the big idea of what the text was about.

• Jot some details down from what you read.

• Only look at the pictures and photographs given.

After figuring out what the question is asking, you - 

• ask for a dictionary

• pick an answer choice that sounds familiar

• read each answer choice and pick one that sounds right

• read each answer choice and go back in the text to prove AND disprove answers

How should I mark my answers during the reading test?

• Wait until the very end to bubble in your answer document.

• Bubble quickly so you can spend more time reading.

• Carefully bubble on your answer document within each passage set.

• Bubble randomly throughout the test.