5th Grade RLA Blitz Day 9

Short Constructed Response: Read the question carefully. Then enter your answer in the box provided.

What is Turtle’s main conflict in the story? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

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Extended Constructed Response: Read the folktale “Coyote and Turtle.” Based on the information in the story, write a response to the following:

Explain how Turtle’s crying advances the plot of the story.

Write a well-organized informational composition that uses specific evidence from the story to support your answer.

Remember to –

• clearly state your central idea

• organize your writing

• develop your ideas in detail

use evidence from the selection in your response

• use correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar

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Why is it important to the plot that Turtle knows that river turtles will die if they get too hot and dry from being in the sun too long?

• His knowledge makes him stay out longer and continue hunting for food during the day.

• His knowledge helps him recognize that he cannot make it back to the river in time, causing him to hide in a crevice.

• His knowledge makes it possible for him to return to the river before the day gets too hot and dry for river turtles.

• His knowledge causes him to find a damp, dark place to hide during the day.

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Why is Coyote’s interaction with Turtle in paragraph 5 important to the plot?

• The interaction explains why Coyote thinks that Turtle is singing a song.

• The interaction shows that Turtle is embarrassed that he is crying.

• The interaction reveals what Coyote will do to Turtle if he doesn’t teach him the song.

• The interaction gives details about how Turtle became stuck in the crevice.

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Based on the details in paragraphs 6 and 7, what can the reader infer?

• Turtle is too tired to fight Coyote.

• Turtle is afraid of Coyote.

• Turtle does not know how to swim.

• Turtle wants to be thrown in the river.

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In paragraph 8, why does the author use the figurative phrase “in a way this ending evened the score” to describe the ending of the story?

• To suggest that Coyote has tricked Turtle before.

• To show that Coyote usually tricks others, but this time he was tricked.

• To indicate that the animals keep count of how many times Coyote tricks them.

• To explain why Turtle tricked Coyote into throwing him into the river.

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