A five-paragraph reading about the heart opens this 6-page 5th grade science sheet. It covers the size of a fist, about 100,000 beats a day, the lub-dub sound made by valves, and how exercise and a balanced diet keep the heart strong. Nine questions follow: four multiple choice, a comparison to delivery trucks, a vocabulary question on valves, a true or false table with evidence, and two longer responses. A two-page answer key includes a sample response.
RI.5.1
“Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.”
Questions 5, 6 and 7 ask students to use or copy a phrase from the passage as evidence.
RI.5.4
“Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.”
Question 6 asks what valves means in paragraph 4, using the clues in the text.
A five-paragraph passage with a photo of a student holding a stethoscope. It gives the heart's size, beats per day, resting rates for adults and children, the valve sound and healthy habits.
Four multiple-choice questions on the heart's size, beats per day, what causes lub-dub and how long blood takes to circle the body.
Students explain the delivery trucks comparison, copy a phrase that tells what valves are, and mark two statements true or false with evidence from the text.
Two written responses. One asks what could go wrong if valves did not close tightly. The other asks students to answer a friend who skips exercise and vegetables.
Answers to all nine questions, with quotes from the passage and a sample response to question 9.
Reading and science in one block
Read the passage aloud once, then let students reread silently with a pencil. Have them underline 100,000 and 60 to 100 before they open page 2.
Evidence practice
Question 7 needs a detail from the text for each answer. Model one on the board and insist that students point to a sentence.
Homework split
Parts 1 and 2 fit one class period. Send Part 3 home, since those two answers need the most writing.
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