End-of-week formative check
Read the passage below carefully. Use your SMART strategies to help you understand the text. Then answer each question. For multiple choice questions, choose the BEST answer. For true/false questions, choose TRUE if the statement matches the passage, or FALSE if it does not. For short answer questions, write in complete sentences and use evidence from the text. |
The Amazing Journey of Monarch Butterflies
Monarch butterflies are incredible insects that travel thousands of miles every year. They spend their summers in Canada and the United States. Then, when temperatures begin to drop in the fall, they fly south to the warm forests of Mexico. Finally, in the spring, they make their way back north again. Monarch butterflies use the sun as a compass to guide them on this amazing journey.
Monarch butterflies face many serious problems that threaten their survival. One problem is that milkweed plants — the only food for baby monarchs — are disappearing because of farming. Another problem is that illegal logging is destroying the Mexican forests where monarchs spend the winter. A third problem is that climate change is making their long migration more dangerous. Fortunately, scientists and volunteers are working hard to solve these problems by planting milkweed, protecting butterfly habitats, and tracking butterfly populations.
What is the MAIN IDEA of this passage?
What text structure does the author use in Paragraph 1?
Monarch butterflies spend the winter in the forests of Mexico.
Baby monarch butterflies eat milkweed plants.
Nobody is trying to help monarch butterflies survive.
Name TWO key details from the passage that support the main idea. Write in complete sentences.
Look at Paragraph 2. What text structure does the author use? Name at least TWO signal words or phrases that helped you figure it out.
Which key detail BEST supports the main idea that monarch butterflies face serious problems?
Which question is answered in Paragraph 1?
What text structure does the author use in Paragraph 2?