A 4-paragraph passage called Heat on the Move: Staying Warm and Cool fills page 1 of this 4-page 5th grade reading, beside a photo of huddled emperor penguins. It covers heat moving from warm to cool, how a thermos uses a vacuum and shiny walls, how blankets and down coats trap air, and how penguins and clothing colors handle heat. Eight questions follow, from multiple choice to an extended response. The key quotes the passage for questions 6 and 8.
RI.5.1
“Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.”
Questions 6 and 8 ask students to point to lines in the passage, such as what light-colored clothing reflects.
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 3 asks for the meaning of vacuum as used in the second paragraph, a word the passage defines in context.
Four paragraphs: cocoa and ice water, the thermos, blankets and down coats, then penguins and dark versus light clothing.
Questions 1 to 4 ask which way heat always moves, what a thermos's shiny walls do, what vacuum means and what blankets and down coats trap.
Question 5 puts a cold spoon in hot soup. Question 6 is a true or false statement about down feathers with a written reason. Question 7 asks what happens if air fills a cracked thermos.
Question 8 asks for clothing plans for a hot hike and a snowy mountain, backed by two pieces of evidence from the text.
Letters for the multiple choice, model answers with quoted lines and a sample response for question 8.
Sketch the thermos
Have students sketch the two walls, the vacuum and the shiny lining before question 2. The sketch makes the radiation answer easier to pick.
Cite the text
Question 8 needs two pieces of evidence. Model one quote on the board, then let students find the second on their own.
Cracked thermos
Question 7 works well as a partner talk. Students need to say what the air allows that the vacuum did not.
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