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Reading — Grade 5
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Jane Goodall at Gombe
Jane Goodall began studying wild chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960. She gave the animals names instead of numbers, which was unusual at the time. She watched a chimpanzee strip a twig and fish termites out of a mound. Until then, most scientists believed that only humans made tools. Her field notes covered the same families for decades.
1. When did Goodall begin her study, and where?
A. Her field notes covered the same families for decades.
B. Goodall showed that a chimpanzee could be taught to speak words.
C. Until then, most scientists believed that only humans made tools.
D. Jane Goodall began studying wild chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960. ← Answer
2. What did she call the chimpanzees?
A. She watched a chimpanzee strip a twig and fish termites out of a mound.
B. She gave the animals names instead of numbers, which was unusual at the time. ← Answer
C. Goodall showed that a chimpanzee could be taught to speak words.
D. Until then, most scientists believed that only humans made tools.
3. What did she see a chimpanzee do with a twig?
A. She watched a chimpanzee strip a twig and fish termites out of a mound. ← Answer
B. Her field notes covered the same families for decades.
C. Goodall showed that a chimpanzee could be taught to speak words.
D. Until then, most scientists believed that only humans made tools.
4. What did scientists believe before that?
A. Until then, most scientists believed that only humans made tools. ← Answer
B. Her field notes covered the same families for decades.
C. She gave the animals names instead of numbers, which was unusual at the time.
D. Goodall showed that a chimpanzee could be taught to speak words.
5. How long did her notes cover the same families?
A. She gave the animals names instead of numbers, which was unusual at the time.
B. She watched a chimpanzee strip a twig and fish termites out of a mound.
C. Goodall showed that a chimpanzee could be taught to speak words.
D. Her field notes covered the same families for decades. ← Answer
6. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. Goodall watched the Gombe chimpanzees for a single season. ← Answer
B. Until then, most scientists believed that only humans made tools.
C. Her field notes covered the same families for decades.
D. She gave the animals names instead of numbers, which was unusual at the time.
7. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. She gave the animals names instead of numbers, which was unusual at the time.
B. She watched a chimpanzee strip a twig and fish termites out of a mound.
C. Goodall studied the chimpanzees in a large zoo in Tanzania. ← Answer
D. Her field notes covered the same families for decades.
8. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: What did she call the chimpanzees?
A. Goodall showed that a chimpanzee could be taught to speak words.
B. She watched a chimpanzee strip a twig and fish termites out of a mound.
C. She gave the animals names instead of numbers, which was unusual at the time. ← Answer
D. Jane Goodall began studying wild chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960.
9. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: What did she see a chimpanzee do with a twig?
A. She watched a chimpanzee strip a twig and fish termites out of a mound. ← Answer
B. Jane Goodall began studying wild chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960.
C. Until then, most scientists believed that only humans made tools.
D. Her field notes covered the same families for decades.
The Erie Canal
The Erie Canal opened in 1825 and ran more than three hundred miles across New York. Mules walked a towpath beside the water and pulled the boats along. A chain of locks raised and lowered the boats over the change in elevation. Freight that once crawled overland by wagon now moved far more cheaply by water. Towns along the route grew quickly once the canal was open.
10. When did the Erie Canal open?
A. Freight that once crawled overland by wagon now moved far more cheaply by water.
B. The canal was abandoned within a year because the boats could not climb.
C. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 and ran more than three hundred miles across New York. ← Answer
D. A chain of locks raised and lowered the boats over the change in elevation.
11. What pulled the boats?
A. The canal was abandoned within a year because the boats could not climb.
B. Mules walked a towpath beside the water and pulled the boats along. ← Answer
C. A chain of locks raised and lowered the boats over the change in elevation.
D. Towns along the route grew quickly once the canal was open.
12. What carried boats over the change in elevation?
A. Towns along the route grew quickly once the canal was open.
B. A chain of locks raised and lowered the boats over the change in elevation. ← Answer
C. The canal was abandoned within a year because the boats could not climb.
D. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 and ran more than three hundred miles across New York.
13. What happened to the cost of freight?
A. Mules walked a towpath beside the water and pulled the boats along.
B. The canal was abandoned within a year because the boats could not climb.
C. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 and ran more than three hundred miles across New York.
D. Freight that once crawled overland by wagon now moved far more cheaply by water. ← Answer
14. What happened to towns along the route?
A. Towns along the route grew quickly once the canal was open. ← Answer
B. Freight that once crawled overland by wagon now moved far more cheaply by water.
C. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 and ran more than three hundred miles across New York.
D. The canal was abandoned within a year because the boats could not climb.
15. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. Steam engines on the boats pulled them along the canal, not mules. ← Answer
B. Freight that once crawled overland by wagon now moved far more cheaply by water.
C. Towns along the route grew quickly once the canal was open.
D. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 and ran more than three hundred miles across New York.
16. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. Freight that once crawled overland by wagon now moved far more cheaply by water.
B. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 and ran more than three hundred miles across New York.
C. The canal was dug to carry drinking water to the towns of New York. ← Answer
D. A chain of locks raised and lowered the boats over the change in elevation.
17. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: What pulled the boats?
A. The canal was abandoned within a year because the boats could not climb.
B. Towns along the route grew quickly once the canal was open.
C. Mules walked a towpath beside the water and pulled the boats along. ← Answer
D. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 and ran more than three hundred miles across New York.
18. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: What carried boats over the change in elevation?
A. Towns along the route grew quickly once the canal was open.
B. Mules walked a towpath beside the water and pulled the boats along.
C. The canal was abandoned within a year because the boats could not climb.
D. A chain of locks raised and lowered the boats over the change in elevation. ← Answer
Reading Tree Rings
A tree usually adds one ring of new wood each growing season. A wide ring points to a wet year, and a narrow ring to a dry one. Researchers take a thin core with a hollow borer instead of cutting the tree down. Matching patterns from many trees stretches the record back centuries. Rings also hold scars from fires and from insect outbreaks.
19. How often does a tree add a ring?
A. A wide ring points to a wet year, and a narrow ring to a dry one.
B. A tree usually adds one ring of new wood each growing season. ← Answer
C. Rings also hold scars from fires and from insect outbreaks.
D. Researchers take a thin core with a hollow borer instead of cutting the tree down.
20. What does a wide ring point to?
A. A wide ring points to a wet year, and a narrow ring to a dry one. ← Answer
B. Rings also hold scars from fires and from insect outbreaks.
C. Researchers take a thin core with a hollow borer instead of cutting the tree down.
D. Researchers must cut down the tree before counting its rings.
21. How do researchers sample a living tree?
A. A wide ring points to a wet year, and a narrow ring to a dry one.
B. Researchers must cut down the tree before counting its rings.
C. Researchers take a thin core with a hollow borer instead of cutting the tree down. ← Answer
D. A tree usually adds one ring of new wood each growing season.
22. How is the record stretched back centuries?
A. A wide ring points to a wet year, and a narrow ring to a dry one.
B. Matching patterns from many trees stretches the record back centuries. ← Answer
C. A tree usually adds one ring of new wood each growing season.
D. Rings also hold scars from fires and from insect outbreaks.
23. What else do rings record?
A. Researchers take a thin core with a hollow borer instead of cutting the tree down.
B. A wide ring points to a wet year, and a narrow ring to a dry one.
C. Rings also hold scars from fires and from insect outbreaks. ← Answer
D. A tree usually adds one ring of new wood each growing season.
24. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. Researchers take a thin core with a hollow borer instead of cutting the tree down.
B. A tree usually adds two rings of new wood each growing season. ← Answer
C. A wide ring points to a wet year, and a narrow ring to a dry one.
D. Matching patterns from many trees stretches the record back centuries.
25. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. The width of each ring shows how tall the tree grew that year. ← Answer
B. Researchers take a thin core with a hollow borer instead of cutting the tree down.
C. A wide ring points to a wet year, and a narrow ring to a dry one.
D. Matching patterns from many trees stretches the record back centuries.
26. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: What does a wide ring point to?
A. A wide ring points to a wet year, and a narrow ring to a dry one. ← Answer
B. Researchers take a thin core with a hollow borer instead of cutting the tree down.
C. Rings also hold scars from fires and from insect outbreaks.
D. A tree usually adds one ring of new wood each growing season.
27. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: How do researchers sample a living tree?
A. Researchers must cut down the tree before counting its rings.
B. Matching patterns from many trees stretches the record back centuries.
C. Rings also hold scars from fires and from insect outbreaks.
D. Researchers take a thin core with a hollow borer instead of cutting the tree down. ← Answer
Mapping the Ocean Floor With Sound
A survey ship sends a pulse of sound down toward the seafloor. The time the echo takes to return shows how deep the water is. Thousands of such readings can be drawn as a map of the bottom. Marie Tharp used these readings to map a long ridge down the Atlantic. The ridge turned out to mark a boundary between plates of the crust.
28. What does the survey ship send down?
A. The time the echo takes to return shows how deep the water is.
B. The ocean floor was mapped from photographs taken by satellites.
C. Marie Tharp used these readings to map a long ridge down the Atlantic.
D. A survey ship sends a pulse of sound down toward the seafloor. ← Answer
29. What does the echo time show?
A. The time the echo takes to return shows how deep the water is. ← Answer
B. Marie Tharp used these readings to map a long ridge down the Atlantic.
C. The ridge turned out to mark a boundary between plates of the crust.
D. The ocean floor was mapped from photographs taken by satellites.
30. What can thousands of readings become?
A. A survey ship sends a pulse of sound down toward the seafloor.
B. The ocean floor was mapped from photographs taken by satellites.
C. Thousands of such readings can be drawn as a map of the bottom. ← Answer
D. The time the echo takes to return shows how deep the water is.
31. What did Marie Tharp map?
A. Marie Tharp used these readings to map a long ridge down the Atlantic. ← Answer
B. The ocean floor was mapped from photographs taken by satellites.
C. Thousands of such readings can be drawn as a map of the bottom.
D. The ridge turned out to mark a boundary between plates of the crust.
32. What did the ridge turn out to mark?
A. Marie Tharp used these readings to map a long ridge down the Atlantic.
B. Thousands of such readings can be drawn as a map of the bottom.
C. The ocean floor was mapped from photographs taken by satellites.
D. The ridge turned out to mark a boundary between plates of the crust. ← Answer
33. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. Thousands of such readings can be drawn as a map of the bottom.
B. Marie Tharp used these readings to map a long ridge down the Atlantic.
C. The ridge turned out to mark a boundary between plates of the crust.
D. Sound travels only through air, so it cannot reach the seafloor. ← Answer
34. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. Marie Tharp used these readings to map a long ridge down the Atlantic.
B. The time the echo takes to return shows how deep the water is.
C. A survey ship sends a pulse of sound down toward the seafloor.
D. Divers measured the depth of the whole deep ocean floor by hand. ← Answer
35. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: What does the echo time show?
A. Marie Tharp used these readings to map a long ridge down the Atlantic.
B. A survey ship sends a pulse of sound down toward the seafloor.
C. The time the echo takes to return shows how deep the water is. ← Answer
D. The ocean floor was mapped from photographs taken by satellites.
36. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: What can thousands of readings become?
A. The ocean floor was mapped from photographs taken by satellites.
B. Thousands of such readings can be drawn as a map of the bottom. ← Answer
C. The ridge turned out to mark a boundary between plates of the crust.
D. Marie Tharp used these readings to map a long ridge down the Atlantic.
The Return of the Bald Eagle
Bald eagle numbers fell sharply in the middle of the twentieth century. A pesticide called DDT thinned the eagles' eggshells, so the eggs broke. The United States banned most uses of DDT in 1972. Protected nesting sites gave the surviving pairs a safer place to breed. By 2007 the bald eagle was taken off the endangered species list.
37. What happened to eagle numbers in the last century?
A. Protected nesting sites gave the surviving pairs a safer place to breed.
B. The eagle recovered on its own, with no law and no protected nests.
C. Bald eagle numbers fell sharply in the middle of the twentieth century. ← Answer
D. A pesticide called DDT thinned the eagles' eggshells, so the eggs broke.
38. What did DDT do to the eggs?
A. A pesticide called DDT thinned the eagles' eggshells, so the eggs broke. ← Answer
B. Bald eagle numbers fell sharply in the middle of the twentieth century.
C. The United States banned most uses of DDT in 1972.
D. Protected nesting sites gave the surviving pairs a safer place to breed.
39. When was DDT mostly banned?
A. The eagle recovered on its own, with no law and no protected nests.
B. By 2007 the bald eagle was taken off the endangered species list.
C. The United States banned most uses of DDT in 1972. ← Answer
D. Bald eagle numbers fell sharply in the middle of the twentieth century.
40. What did protected nesting sites provide?
A. The eagle recovered on its own, with no law and no protected nests.
B. By 2007 the bald eagle was taken off the endangered species list.
C. Protected nesting sites gave the surviving pairs a safer place to breed. ← Answer
D. Bald eagle numbers fell sharply in the middle of the twentieth century.
41. When did the eagle leave the endangered list?
A. Protected nesting sites gave the surviving pairs a safer place to breed.
B. A pesticide called DDT thinned the eagles' eggshells, so the eggs broke.
C. The eagle recovered on its own, with no law and no protected nests.
D. By 2007 the bald eagle was taken off the endangered species list. ← Answer
42. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. A pesticide called DDT thinned the eagles' eggshells, so the eggs broke.
B. The United States banned most uses of DDT in 1972.
C. By 2007 the bald eagle was taken off the endangered species list.
D. DDT thickened the eagles' eggshells, so the eggs grew too heavy. ← Answer
43. Which statement could NOT be supported by an accurate quotation from this text?
A. Protected nesting sites gave the surviving pairs a safer place to breed.
B. Eagle numbers fell because of hunting alone, not because of DDT. ← Answer
C. The United States banned most uses of DDT in 1972.
D. A pesticide called DDT thinned the eagles' eggshells, so the eggs broke.
44. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: What did DDT do to the eggs?
A. The United States banned most uses of DDT in 1972.
B. A pesticide called DDT thinned the eagles' eggshells, so the eggs broke. ← Answer
C. The eagle recovered on its own, with no law and no protected nests.
D. Bald eagle numbers fell sharply in the middle of the twentieth century.
45. Which line would you quote, word for word, to answer this question: When was DDT mostly banned?
A. Protected nesting sites gave the surviving pairs a safer place to breed.
B. Bald eagle numbers fell sharply in the middle of the twentieth century.
C. The United States banned most uses of DDT in 1972. ← Answer
D. The eagle recovered on its own, with no law and no protected nests.
Hedy Lamarr's Patent
Hedy Lamarr was a film actress who also worked as an inventor. During the Second World War she worked on the problem of jammed radio signals. With composer George Antheil she designed a system that hopped between frequencies. The pair received a patent for the idea in 1942. Frequency hopping later became part of everyday wireless communication.
46. What work did Lamarr do besides acting?
A. With composer George Antheil she designed a system that hopped between frequencies.
B. The pair received a patent for the idea in 1942.
C. Hedy Lamarr was a film actress who also worked as an inventor. ← Answer
D. Lamarr designed her signal system many years after the war ended.
47. What problem did she work on in the war?
A. Frequency hopping later became part of everyday wireless communication.
B. The pair received a patent for the idea in 1942.
C. During the Second World War she worked on the problem of jammed radio signals. ← Answer
D. Lamarr designed her signal system many years after the war ended.
48. What did she design with George Antheil?
A. Hedy Lamarr was a film actress who also worked as an inventor.
B. Frequency hopping later became part of everyday wireless communication.
C. Lamarr designed her signal system many years after the war ended.
D. With composer George Antheil she designed a system that hopped between frequencies. ← Answer
49. When was the patent granted?
A. With composer George Antheil she designed a system that hopped between frequencies.
B. During the Second World War she worked on the problem of jammed radio signals.
C. The pair received a patent for the idea in 1942. ← Answer
D. Lamarr designed her signal system many years after the war ended.
50. What became of frequency hopping?
A. Hedy Lamarr was a film actress who also worked as an inventor.
B. Lamarr designed her signal system many years after the war ended.
C. Frequency hopping later became part of everyday wireless communication. ← Answer
D. During the Second World War she worked on the problem of jammed radio signals.
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Quote It Exactly: Accurate Quotations and Inferences
Students will quote accurately from an informational text when explaining what it says explicitly and when drawing inferences, and will punctuate each quotation correctly. · 40 min
Warm-up — say this
“Accurate means exact. Close is a different standard, and it is not this one.”
Worked example
What does the text say explicitly about John Glenn's 1962 flight plan?
Answer: A new electronic machine produced it. The text says the flight plan had been produced by a new electronic machine, and that Glenn asked that Johnson check the machine's numbers by hand.
A mistake students make
A student quotes the gist rather than the words, writing that Glenn wanted a human to double-check.
How the book fixes it
Have the student find the sentence and copy it exactly, then compare the two versions. Paraphrase belongs outside the quotation marks.
Note to the parent
Ask your student to read only the quoted words aloud while you follow the text. A misquote is almost always heard before it is seen.
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