LEVEL H Benchmark Passage Brain Works Name Word Count: 89 Brain Works Every person has a brain. A brain helps a person to think, feel, and move. A brain helps a person to grow. It helps a person from being too hot or too cold. It helps a person solve problems and to read. Each person has to take care of his or her brain. A person has to eat healthy foods and play. A brain never stops working. A brain works even when a person sleeps. A brain helps move air and blood through the body. A brain works hard! Images: Top: © Guido Vrola/Dreamstime.com; center: © iStockphoto.com/Agnieszka Kirinicjanow; © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. bottom: © iStockphoto.com/Ana Abejon www.readinga-z.com
LEVEL H Benchmark Passage Quick Check Brain Works Name Date Instructions: Read each question carefully and choose the best answer. 1. What is the passage 5. Which words from the mostly about? passage help you to know what healthy means? A the ways your brain rests B what your brain helps you do A solve problems C how to keep your brain B stops working healthy C take care of 2. Which sentence from the passage supports the idea that the brain works hard? A A brain never stops working. B A person has to eat healthy foods and play. C Every person has a brain. 3. What does your brain do when you sleep? A it works B it rests C it moves 4. Where is your brain? A in your foot B in your hand C in your head © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. www.readinga-z.com
LEVEL H Benchmark Passage Dinner with the Animals Name Word Count: 99 Dinner with the Animals We would ask all our animal friends to dinner. We would ask them to eat food with us at our table in the woods. We would put all the foods they like to eat on the table. The bears would ask for honey, but they would not say please. The bees would buzz around all our animal friends to get the honey. The ducks would clean their feathers at the table. The birds would chirp and chirp at the dinner table. The jackrabbits would hop around the dinner table. It would feel just like a family dinner at home. © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. www.readinga-z.com
LEVEL H Benchmark Passage Quick Check Dinner With the Animals Name Date Instructions: Read each question carefully and choose the best answer. 1. Where does this story take place? 5. What is dinner? A in a house A a home B in the woods B an animal C in a restaurant C a meal 2. Which tells a fact about the story? A Bears are animals. B Bears say please. C Honey tastes good. 3. Where are the bees in the story? A in the trees B on the table C in the air 4. What would the birds do at the dinner table? A clean their feathers B chirp and chirp C hop around © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. www.readinga-z.com
LEVEL H Benchmark Passage Hide and Seek Games Name Word Count: 100 Hide and Seek Games Children like to play games such as hide and seek together. One child who is “it” counts as the other children hide. After the child counts, he or she tries to find the hiding children. Children can play the game many different ways. Sometimes the hiding children run to home base before they are found. The child who is “it” tries to tag them. Sometimes children who are found help the child who is “it” find others. Sometimes the game is played in the dark. What kind of rules will you have the next time you play hide and seek? Images: Top: © Shannon Fagan/123RF; center: © iStockphoto.com/Acky Yeung; bottom: © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. © Photomyeye/Dreamstime.com www.readinga-z.com
LEVEL JI H Benchmark Passage Quick Check Hide and Seek Games Name Date Instructions: Read each question carefully and choose the best answer. 1. What does the author hope 4. What always happens during readers learn from this passage? hide and seek? A how to play hide and seek A Children run to home base before they are found. B that children should not play hide and seek B Children who are found help the leader find the C that you can only play hide other children. and seek during the day C Children who hide hope 2. What is home base? they will not be found. A a safe place 5. There are rules for hide and seek. B a hiding place What are rules? C a place to count A things that tell about kinds of games for children 3. Why do the children hide? B things to do so others do A They like to be at not see you home base. C things that tell what can B They do not want and cannot be done to be tagged. C They do not want to play. © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. www.readinga-z.com
LEVEL H Benchmark Passage Hide and Seek with Tank Name Word Count: 92 Hide and Seek with Tank My silly bird, Tank, is my very favorite pet. Tank and I like to play every day. I hide, and Tank seeks out my hiding place. I never hide in the same place. It never takes Tank a long time to find me. I pop my head out of my hiding place. I even say his name so he can find me. He says, “Peek-a-boo,” when he finds me. Tank wants me to give him his favorite treat. I give him the treat he likes best. His favorite treat is an apple. © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. www.readinga-z.com
LEVEL H Benchmark Passage Quick Check Hide and Seek with Tank Name Date Instructions: Read each question carefully and choose the best answer. 1. What do the parrot and the child 5. What does it mean to seek? both do in this story? A look for A They both say, “Peek-a-boo.” B hide from B They both eat the apple. C pick out C They both play hide and seek. 2. What is the name of the bird? A Treat B Tank C Peek-a-boo 3. What does Tank say when he finds the child? A “Peek-a-boo” B “I found you.” C “I am ready for my treat.” 4. How does the child help the parrot find him? A The child hides in the same place. B The child calls the parrot’s name. C The child waits a long time. © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. www.readinga-z.com