A Place for Frogs
Vocabulary
Word Study
100

What is the selection mainly about?

  • A. how people can help frogs survive

  • B. how frogs can hide from predators

  • C. how tadpoles grow into adult frogs

  • D. how frogs help improve life for people

A. how people can help frogs survive

100

Tim is hoping the garden will make a COMEBACK.

  • A. return to health

  • B. decrease in insects

  • C. damaged by chemicals

  • D. harmed by the sun’s rays

A. return to health

100

What are the 3 final stable syllables that were the spelling pattern for the week?

-le, -tion, -sion

200

Because frogs are eaten by other animals, they are an important part of the food —

  • A. chain

  • B. habitat

  • C. system

  • D. exchange

A. chain

200

We saw all the NATIVE plants at the nature reserve.

  • A. real

  • B. foreign

  • C. carefully arranged

  • D. belonging naturally

D. belonging naturally

200

 Choose the word that is correctly divided into syllables in each item below.
 

  • A. ex/plosi/on

  • B. oc/cas/ion

  • C. de/ci/sion

  • D. dis/cu/ssion

C. de/ci/sion

300

How can chemicals used to grow crops affect frogs?

  • A. They make the frogs grow bigger and stronger.

  • B. They make it hard for tadpoles to grow into frogs.

  • C. They block the sun’s rays and can damage the frogs’ eggs.

  • D. They dry up ponds so frogs need to find another place to lay eggs.

B. They make it hard for tadpoles to grow into frogs.

300

Monarch butterflies are MIGRATING to Mexico now.

  • A. staying behind

  • B. permanently moving

  • C. moving with the seasons

  • D. having trouble surviving

C. moving with the seasons

300

Choose the word that is correctly divided into syllables in each item below.
 

  • A. hurd/le

  • B. ob/sta/cle

  • C. cru/mble

  • D. stru/ggle

B. ob/sta/cle

400

How do frogs help farmers?

  • A. They eat insects that might eat crops.

  • B. Their behavior can predict the weather.

  • C. They provide more food for growing crops.

  • D. Their sounds scare away dangerous animals.

A. They eat insects that might eat crops.

400

Rangers are trying to RESTORE the elk population.

  • A. return to original condition

  • B. carefully burn some forest areas

  • C. move from one place to another

  • D. permanently decrease the number of

A. return to original condition

400

The word below that has been correctly divided into syllables is —

  • A. in/credib/le

  • B. love/abl/e

  • C. tri/a/ngle

  • D. hor/ri/ble

D. hor/ri/ble

500

Why is this selection an informational text?

  • A. It includes vivid details.

  • B. It is written about an animal.

  • C. It explains facts about nature.

  • D. It is meant to entertain readers.

C. It explains facts about nature.

500

I just learned that the mushrooms I love to eat are a kind of FUNGUS!

  • A. pest that gets nutrition from crops

  • B. plant that gets nutrition from insects

  • C. seedling that gets nutrition from soil

  • D. organism that gets nutrition from decaying matter

D. organism that gets nutrition from decaying matter

500

Choose the word that is correctly divided into syllables in each item below.
 

  • A. ad/dit/ion

  • B. pro/tecti/on

  • C. pop/ul/ation

  • D. in/for/ma/tion

D. in/for/ma/tion

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