• Practice for every day of the school year • Help students prepare for standardized testing

SKILL PRACTICE
Read the question. Fill in the bubble next to the correct answer.
 1. What in the passage can really happen?
A 
A baby can pull a toy chest.
B 
A baby can open a window.
C 
A baby can sleep in a crib.
D 
An owl can understand a baby.
 2. What in the passage is make-believe?
A 
A baby smiles at his sister.
B 
A sister says good night 
to her brother.
C 
A baby kicks his legs.
D 
A baby plays cards with an owl.
 3. Which one can a baby do?
A 
have a real owl for a friend
B 
wave his arms at a stuffed toy
C 
say whole sentences
D 
deal cards
 4. Why did the writer have the passage 
take place in a baby’s bedroom?
A 
to make the story seem more real
B 
to show that the story is 
make-believe
C 
to make the story a fairy tale
D 
to confuse the reader
STRATEGY PRACTICE
Which character in the passage would you want to be? Why?
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Remind students of the common reasons why authors write: to entertain, to inform, to persuade, or 
to teach how to do something. Say: By understanding the author’s purpose, we can better set our 
own purpose for reading. Also remind students of the 
Ask Questions
strategy, which was taught 
during Week 5. Say: Asking questions after we read is a good way to figure out if we understood 
what we read. Read the instructions at the top of the page aloud. Then have students read the 
passage. When students have finished, direct them to complete the skill practice activity. Review the 
answers together. For the strategy practice activity, invite volunteers to share their questions, and 
allow the group to brainstorm ideas for finding the answers.