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1 READING Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills 3 Form C Practice and Mastery Name

2 To the Student TAKS Practice and Mastery in Reading is a review program for the TAKS Reading test. This book has five practice lessons. In each practice lesson, you will read a selection and answer 10 multiple-choice comprehension questions. The practice selections and questions are similar to those you will find on the TAKS Reading test. Becoming familiar with the TAKS format will help you succeed on the TAKS Reading test. Your teacher will explain how you will do the practice lessons and how to record your answers. Be sure to follow the directions for each lesson. As you complete the lessons, read the selections and answer the questions carefully. Record your answers in your book. Remember to fill in the answer bubbles completely. If you change an answer, you must fully erase your first answer. While you work on the practice lesson, use the Testing Tips below. Read these helpful tips carefully. They can make you a better test taker. Testing Tips for Answering Multiple-Choice Questions Read each question carefully before you try to answer it. Be sure you know what the question is asking you to do. Cross out any answer choices that are not reasonable. Then make your choice from the remaining choices. Read the question again. Check that your answer makes sense. Table of Contents Practice Practice Practice Practice Practice This TAKS Practice and Mastery in Reading, Grade 3 was prepared for students by Jeanine Farley. Illustrated by Lisa Greenleaf. Photo Credits: page 14, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-US page 15, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-US ISBN Curriculum Associates, Inc. North Billerica, MA No part of this book may be reproduced by any means without written permission from the publisher. All Rights Reserved. Printed in USA

Practice 2 This Month: Insects in Texas Insect World A Magazine About the Insect World The Monarch Butterfly: The Texas State Insect by Luis Mendoza 1 Monarch butterflies start out as eggs.

3 Practice 2 This Month: Insects in Texas Insect World A Magazine About the Insect World The Monarch Butterfly: The Texas State Insect by Luis Mendoza 1 Monarch butterflies start out as eggs. The eggs are each only one-eighth inch long. A female butterfly lays about 400 eggs. She lays each egg on a leaf of milkweed plant. In about four days, the eggs hatch. They become tiny caterpillars. You may have seen these caterpillars. They are yellow, black, and white striped. 2 The caterpillars eat milkweed leaves. Milkweed is poisonous to most animals. It is not poisonous to the caterpillars. By eating milkweed, the caterpillars become poisonous. Birds do not eat the caterpillars. The birds would get sick if they did. April Issue Caterpillars are eating machines. They eat constantly. They double their weight in one day. They grow and grow. Their weight increases 2,700 times. (By contrast, a seven-pound human baby may become a 140-pound adult. That s an increase of only 20 times.) When the caterpillar is about two inches long, it stops eating. The caterpillar has lived all its life on milkweed plants. Now it leaves the plants. It finds a safe branch. It hangs from the branch. It looks like the letter J. Soon, it molts, or loses its skin. It now looks like a green pod. The new skin dries and hardens. It gets gold spots. The caterpillar is now called a chrysalis. Its body is changing. In about 12 days, a damp butterfly comes out. The new butterfly rests in the sun. It takes hours for its wings to dry. Finally, it flies. It does not grow anymore. It eats only liquids, called nectar, from flowers. The adult monarch has bright orange wings. The wings have black lines and edges. It s easy to tell the male from the female. The male has two dark spots on the wings. The black lines in the female are thicker. Continued on next page

The Monarch Butterfly continued 6 Like some birds, monarch butterflies fly south for the winter. They are the only butterflies to migrate. Some travel 2,000 miles in three months.

They arrive there in November. They stay in Mexico all winter. 7 The butterflies rest on fir trees. One butterfly hangs upside down. Its wings cover another upside-down butterfly.

4 The Monarch Butterfly continued 6 Like some birds, monarch butterflies fly south for the winter. They are the only butterflies to migrate. Some travel 2,000 miles in three months. In the fall, cool weather tells them to go south. Monarch butterflies from all over the United States and Canada fly through Texas. They go to nine warm mountains in Mexico. They arrive there in November. They stay in Mexico all winter. 7 The butterflies rest on fir trees. One butterfly hangs upside down. Its wings cover another upside-down butterfly. In this way, the butterflies stack themselves. Imagine stacking upsidedown V s into a tower. This is how the monarchs live all winter. 8 Finally, the days get warmer. In March, the butterflies go north. Millions of butterflies leave the trees. Millions of butterflies darken the skies. Flying close together, they form huge butterfly clouds. The butterflies fly at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour! They want to get north. In the north, there is milkweed. There they can lay their eggs. Monarch butterflies travel through Texas twice a year. They arrive in the fall and spring. The butterflies use two routes. One route is a central route. The other is a coastal route. The butterflies that use the central route are from states in the Midwest. The butterflies on the coastal route are from states that are east of the Mississippi River. ADVERTISEMENT Monarch butterflies are the most beautiful of butterflies. Capture their beauty with a lovely monarch poster. Perfect for classrooms. Students will love this poster. Send for your monarch butterfly poster today. ADVERTISEMENT Each poster costs $4.95! Supplies are limited. 9 9

5 11 What is the title of this article? Insect World The Monarch Butterfly: The Texas State Insect This Month: Insects in Texas A Magazine About the Insect World 13 Paragraph 4 is mostly about the eggs of the monarch butterfly how monarch caterpillars eat a monarch chrysalis the travels of the monarch butterfly 12 In paragraph 2, the word poisonous means a leafy plant something that can make you sick if eaten a caterpillar with black, yellow, and white stripes milkweed leaves 10

6 14 Look at the diagram of information from the article. The Life of a Monarch Butterfly A monarch butterfly begins as a tiny egg. It becomes a hungry caterpillar. Next it turns into a chrysalis. Which of these belongs in the empty box? The chrysalis is green. It looks like a pod. Finally, it becomes an adult butterfly. The new butterfly waits for its wings to dry. 15 This article was written mainly to make readers want to protect butterflies describe the life of the monarch butterfly help readers find monarch butterflies in their area get readers to buy a butterfly poster 16 Which statement is true about monarch butterflies? Monarchs fly south in winter to eat fir-tree leaves. A butterfly s damp wings dry in minutes. Monarchs fly north in spring to find milkweed plants. Milkweed is not poisonous to most animals. 11

7 17 In paragraph 6, which words help the reader know what migrate means? fly south for the winter in three months stay in Mexico all winter from all over the United States and Canada 18 The author organizes paragraphs 6 through 8 of the article by telling the routes the butterflies take through Texas comparing butterflies with birds showing how butterflies hang upside down in winter explaining what butterflies do at different times of the year 12

8 19 Read the first sentence of the summary below. Summary of The Monarch Butterfly: The Texas State Insect Monarch butterflies begin their life as tiny eggs. Which of the following completes the summary above? The eggs are one-eighth inch. Each egg rests on a milkweed leaf. The eggs hatch into caterpillars that are yellow, black, and white striped. The caterpillars eat and eat. They increase in size about 2,700 times. Next, they become tiny caterpillars. They eat only milkweed leaves. Eating milkweed makes the caterpillars poisonous to other animals. The other animals leave them alone. When the caterpillars reach two inches in size, they stop eating. Eventually, they become adult butterflies. Adults may travel 2,000 miles in only three months. They start in the United States or Canada. In the fall, they fly south. They travel through Texas. They winter in Mexico. The following March, they travel north again. They hatch into tiny caterpillars. The caterpillars grow rapidly. When they are two inches long, each turns into a chrysalis. Out of the chrysalis comes an adult butterfly. The butterflies may travel 2,000 miles to winter in Mexico. In March, they return north. 20 In the advertisement, which of these is a fact? Monarch butterflies are the most beautiful of butterflies. Students will love this poster. Perfect for classrooms. Each poster costs $

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