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

SKILL PRACTICE
Read each question. Fill in the bubble next to the correct answer.
 1. Why do you think Diego’s parents 
covered his room with sheets of paper?
A 
to make the room look good
B 
to keep the paint looking nice
C 
to give him big drawing spaces
D 
to punish him
 2. What helped Diego become a muralist?
A 
working at the Office of Education
B 
drawing on furniture in his house
C 
being born in Mexico
D 
drawing on the papered walls 
of his room
 3. Which one is probably true about the 
murals at the Office of Education?
A 
The murals are too small to see.
B 
The people in the murals are large.
C 
Some walls are not painted.
D 
Nobody knows Diego painted them.
 4. Why do you think Diego made special 
paints every day?
A 
He used a lot of paint.
B 
People kept taking the paint.
C 
The paint dried too fast.
D 
Helpers kept spilling the paint.
STRATEGY PRACTICE
With a partner, discuss one question you had as you read. 
Did you find the answer? If not, how could you find it?
Make Inferences
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Daily Reading Comprehension • EMC 3453 • © Evan-Moor Corp.
WEEK 9
DAY 4
READ THE PASSAGE
Stop to tell yourself what is happening.
Lost in a Backpack
The class sat quietly. Some students stared out the windows and others 
doodled. Everyone was waiting for Max. He stood over his backpack, which was 
slumped on his desk. Max tugged at the zipper, which refused to budge at first. 
After a few more tries, Max unzipped his backpack. It was stuffed with things. “I 
know I put it in here last night,” Max mumbled.
Max’s teacher walked over to his desk and folded her arms. Her foot began
a steady tap.
Max did not want to keep his teacher waiting. He reached into his backpack 
and quickly pulled out its contents. Out came gum wrappers and cookie crumbs. 
Out came rubber bands and markers. Out came some action figures and a
broken pencil.
Max finally got to the bottom of the backpack. A sheet of paper wrinkled as he 
grabbed it. “I knew I would find it!” said Max. He sounded as if he had won a race.