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WorksheetsSummarizing and paraphrasing
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 45mins
There are five teams of students in the fifth grade. The blue team has math first period, and the red team has science. The yellow team gets to go outside early in the morning, while the green team goes to music. Only students on the orange team get to play games first period. Each student wears a nametag with his or her color, so that the teachers and students all know where a student should be.
The Elk River flows from the far northern part of the state all the way to the southern tip. All kinds of animals rely on it for drinking water, people eat the fish they catch in it, and farmers in the state depend on it for irrigating their crops. Since there is very little rain in this state, the Elk River gives animals and humans the water they need to stay alive. Even though the river is not nearly the biggest in the nation, it is very important to the people and animals that live near it.
As soon as she arrived at grandmother's house, Jessica ran into her bedroom to look at the blue quilt. It covered her grandmother's bed and was Jessica's favorite. It had patches of dark blue, medium blue, and light blue, with pictures of birds and flowers on every other patch. Jessica liked to take naps with the quilt wrapped around her. She loved the way it felt so soft and warm against her skin. Whenever she was visiting grandma, just looking at the quilt made Jessica happy.
Books lay in the middle of his floor. Several broken toys were shoved halfway under the bed, and dirty clothes were everywhere. Frank's parents kept telling him to clean his room, but it never seemed to get clean. In fact, if Frank did manage to clean part of it, the rest of the room just got messier. In one corner of the room was an old peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an open bag of potato chips was thrown on the dresser.
Math didn't make much sense to Cathy. She always got area and perimeter mixed up and she had no idea what a right angle was. Last quarter she failed math, and this quarter wasn't any better. As long as she could remember, math had been hard for Cathy. She did fine in reading and science, but not math. Now she was working on her math homework, but she didn't know how to do most of it. Who invented math, anyway!
Jose carefully poured out the bag of marbles on his bed. He picked his ten favorite marbles and carefully set them to the side. Then he got out a small bag from his top drawer, and put the ten marbles inside. Just to make sure he wouldn't forget them, he placed the bag of marbles in his backpack. Jose loved show and tell, and he was excited that he would get to show his class some of his favorite marbles.
"Are you already done, son?" his father asked. "It seems like you just got in the water." Jacob was finished with his bath in less than two minutes. He got his body and hair wet, rubbed some grape flavored shampoo on his hair, washed his body with soap, and quickly rinsed it off. He liked to take fast baths so he would have more time to play. In fact, Jacob never took a long bath. To him, the faster the bath, the better.
Lisa knew all of the seven dwarfs except one. She remembered Grumpy, Sleepy and Bashful. And of course she couldn't forget Doc and Dopey. Dopey was her favorite. But there was one she just could not remember. Let's see. There's also Sneezy, and that's six. But she could not remember that last one. What was his name?
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When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers. The swamps of southeast Texas have alligators and other exotic wildlife.
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There are a lot of cows in Texas.
There are many different, varied parts of Texas.
Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.
There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.
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A good paraphrase has the _____________ ___________, different words, and different word order.
same ideas
different ideas
weird synonyms
"The Europeans did not consider the indigenous.... people to be civilized...."
Portugal did not consider native people as "humans".
People from Europe thought that native people were not as advanced as they were.
The Europeans did not think the indigenous people to be civilized.
"Whenever you are trying to describe how quickly or slowly something occurs, you are describing a rate."
To describe how fast something is and how slow something is to describe how a rate is.
Whenever you try to describe things, you're always describing a rate.
Rates are fast or slow descriptions.
"Like the conquistadors of the sixteenth century, the Europeans took the land through force."
The real power of the conquistadors lay elsewhere, with the production of steel.
Europeans used force to take over the land in the same way conquistadors in the 1500s did.
Like the conquistadors of the 1500s, the Europeans took the land using force.
"To the east of the Pyrenees lie the Alps."
The Pyrenees are to the west of the Alps.
To the east of the Pyrenees are the Alps.
The Alps are taller than the Pyrenees.
"A warm cup of water has really fast molecules."
The molecules in the warm cup of water have a lot of kinetic energy
Fast molecules are in hot water.
A cold cup of water has low energy
"They like to swim on their back and sides and can see just as well underwater as they can above."
Sea otters are good at floating on the water's surface, as air trapped in their fur makes them more buoyant.
Otters love swimming, They can also see very well underwater --like how they see well on land.
They like to swimming and they can be seen underwater by divers and other animals.
"Keeping their fur in good condition is important, so otters spend a lot of time grooming."
Otters spend a lot of time keeping their fur clean because it is important for them.
Otters spend a lot of time brushing their fur.
Keeping their fur in good shape is important, so otters spend a lot of time grooming.
"They are intelligent and curious, and they are usually busy hunting, investigating, or playing with something."
Sea Otter are smart and learn new things. They usually like to hunt small animals in rivers.
They like to hunting and playing and something.
Otters are smart and wonder a lot. They are hunters so they are busy most of the time.
"For the sea otter, half of each day is spent diving for food and eating it."
Sea otters spend half of every day diving for food to eat and eating it.
Sea otter consumes many types of prey including sea urchins, snails, clams, abalone, mussels, crabs, scallops, fish, barnacles, octopus, worms, and squid.
Each day they like to dive for food and eat food.
