Who Loves the Sun? Iguanas!

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1 Name Teacher Date / 5 ER.DFA2.2.R.RI.02: Identify and explain the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. Directions. Read the passage and select the correct answer for each question. Who Loves the Sun? Iguanas! When it is sunny out, the temperature is usually warmer. This is because sunlight is warm. When there is a lot of sunlight, we feel warmer. But we are not the only animal that notices when it is sunny out. There is an island in the ocean where a special animal lives. This animal is called an iguana. Iguanas are a kind of lizard. Like a lot of animals, iguanas need sunlight to live. If they don t get enough sunlight, they get too cold. When they get cold, they can get sick, just like a person can get sick from being too cold. So, an iguana has to always watch for when the sun comes out. Iguanas usually live in caves. These are good places to hide from bigger animals. But because caves do not get a lot of sunlight, they are not very warm. So, if an iguana starts to feel cold, it crawls out of its cave and tries to find a place with a lot of sunlight. It will sit in the sunlight for a long time. This makes the iguana s body warmer and helps it stay healthy. Where is an iguana s favorite place to sit? Iguanas like to sit on rocks. This is because the rocks are often warm. The rocks are warm because they have been sitting in the sunlight. Just like the iguana, if a rock sits out in the sunlight, then the rock will get warmer too. Sunlight can make many things warm. All over the world, wherever the sun is shining, places are being warmed by sunlight. Any surface that gets sunlight is made warmer. During the summer, when it gets hot, people go inside their houses because they want to get less sunlight. The iguana does that too, and it will go back into a cave when it gets too hot. You can test this with an experiment. If you go outside, try standing in a place where you are in the sunlight. Stay for a couple minutes. After that, walk into a place where there is less sunlight, like in the shade under a tree. Then, ask yourself: In which place did I feel hotter? You will probably feel hotter in the sunlight. This is because sunlight is warm. When things touch sunlight, they become warmer too. This is how sunlight keeps us warm and healthy ReadWorks, Inc. All rights

2 1. What is the main idea of this passage? a. The Iguana s favorite place to sit. b. Why humans need sunlight to live and stay healthy. c. Where Iguanas can hide from bigger animals. d. Why Iguanas need sunlight to live. 2. What detail supports the main idea? a. We are not the only animal that notices when it is sunny out. b. The sunlight makes the iguana s body warmer and helps it stay healthy. c. The rocks are warm because they have been sitting in the sunlight. d. The iguana will go back into a cave when it gets too hot. 3. Read the following paragraph from the passage. Where is an iguana s favorite place to sit? Iguanas like to sit on rocks. This is because the rocks are often warm. The rocks are warm because they have been sitting in the sunlight. Just like the iguana, if a rock sits out in the sunlight, then the rock will get warmer too. What is the main idea of this paragraph? a. Why a rock is an Iguana s favorite place to sit. b. Why rocks get warm. c. How an Iguana sunbathes on a rock. d. Places where Iguana s like to sit.

3 Directions: Read the passage and select the correct answer for each question. Li Bing and the Flood by Vinnie Rotondaro A very long time ago there were people who lived along a river in China. The river was named the Min River. There was a problem with the Min River. The people who lived along it were scared of it because it would overflow. This happened once a year, every year. When the river overflowed water would flood the people s homes and everything would get wet. This was a very bad thing for the people who lived along the Min River. It was a big problem. So some of the people got together and started to think about how they could fix it. Eventually the governor of the people got involved. His name was Li Bing and he was very smart. Li Bing investigated the problem. When someone investigates a problem it means that they look for the cause of the problem. The cause of a problem is the place where the problem starts. Bing found out that the problem of the flooding river started up in the mountains. The tops of the mountains were very high up in the sky, where it was very cold. When it was wintertime, it would get so cold that the tops of the mountains would become covered in snow. When springtime came, all the snow would melt. When snow melts it means it turns into water. The problem was that the melted water would fall down the mountain and go into the Min River. This is why it would overflow and flood people s homes. Li Bing knew that the melting snow was the cause of the flooding. But he also knew that he couldn t stop the snow from melting. So he started to think about other ways that he could fix the problem. Then Li Bing had a great idea. He realized that the best way to solve the problem would be to turn it into an opportunity. An opportunity is a chance for something good to happen. Away from the river there was a flat piece of land that had its own problem. It didn t have any water. It needed water. So Li Bing started thinking about how he could get the extra water that was bad for the people who lived along the Min River to the flat plain of land that needed water to grow plants. Li Bing got a bunch of workers together and created a levee in the Min River. A levee is a big wall that people build to stop water from coming into one place and make it go to another place. Li Bing and his workers made the levee out of bamboo and stones. It took him and his men four years to build. When the levee was done the water stopped flooding the homes of the people who lived along the Min River and started going into the land that was flat and needed water. Now the people who lived along the river didn t have to worry about the river flooding and plants began to grow in the flat land ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.

4 4. What is the main idea of this passage? 5. Write two details that support your answer.

5 AK.ER.DFA2.2.R.RI.02: Identify and explain the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. / 5 Directions: Read the passage and select the correct answer for each question.

6 1. What is the main idea of this passage? a. The Iguana s favorite place to sit. b. Why humans need sunlight to live and stay healthy. c. Where Iguanas can hide from bigger animals. d. Why Iguanas need sunlight to live. 2. What detail supports the main idea? a. We are not the only animal that notices when it is sunny out. b. The sunlight makes the iguana s body warmer and helps it stay healthy. c. The rocks are warm because they have been sitting in the sunlight. d. The iguana will go back into a cave when it gets too hot. 3. Read the following paragraph from the passage. Where is an iguana s favorite place to sit? Iguanas like to sit on rocks. This is because the rocks are often warm. The rocks are warm because they have been sitting in the sunlight. Just like the iguana, if a rock sits out in the sunlight, then the rock will get warmer too. What is the main idea of this paragraph? a. Why a rock is an Iguana s favorite place to sit. b. Why rocks get warm. c. How an Iguana sunbathes on a rock. d. Places where Iguana s like to sit.

7 Directions: Read the passage and select the correct answer for each question. Li Bing and the Flood by Vinnie Rotondaro A very long time ago there were people who lived along a river in China. The river was named the Min River. There was a problem with the Min River. The people who lived along it were scared of it because it would overflow. This happened once a year, every year. When the river overflowed water would flood the people s homes and everything would get wet. This was a very bad thing for the people who lived along the Min River. It was a big problem. So some of the people got together and started to think about how they could fix it. Eventually the governor of the people got involved. His name was Li Bing and he was very smart. Li Bing investigated the problem. When someone investigates a problem it means that they look for the cause of the problem. The cause of a problem is the place where the problem starts. Bing found out that the problem of the flooding river started up in the mountains. The tops of the mountains were very high up in the sky, where it was very cold. When it was wintertime, it would get so cold that the tops of the mountains would become covered in snow. When springtime came, all the snow would melt. When snow melts it means it turns into water. The problem was that the melted water would fall down the mountain and go into the Min River. This is why it would overflow and flood people s homes. Li Bing knew that the melting snow was the cause of the flooding. But he also knew that he couldn t stop the snow from melting. So he started to think about other ways that he could fix the problem. Then Li Bing had a great idea. He realized that the best way to solve the problem would be to turn it into an opportunity. An opportunity is a chance for something good to happen. Away from the river there was a flat piece of land that had its own problem. It didn t have any water. It needed water. So Li Bing started thinking about how he could get the extra water that was bad for the people who lived along the Min River to the flat plain of land that needed water to grow plants. Li Bing got a bunch of workers together and created a levee in the Min River. A levee is a big wall that people build to stop water from coming into one place and make it go to another place. Li Bing and his workers made the levee out of bamboo and stones. It took him and his men four years to build. When the levee was done the water stopped flooding the homes of the people who lived along the Min River and started going into the land that was flat and needed water. Now the people who lived along the river didn t have to worry about the river flooding and plants began to grow in the flat land ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.

8 4. What is the main idea of this passage? Answer may vary. Answer should reflect the following. How Li Bing solved the flooding problem of the Min river. 5. Write two details that support your answer. Possible answers. - Li Bing started to think about other ways that he could fix the problem. Then Li Bing had a great idea. - Bing found out that the problem of the flooding river started up in the mountains. - Li Bing and his workers made the levee out of bamboo and stones. - Now the people who lived along the river didn t have to worry about the river flooding and plants began to grow in the flat land.