Storm Chasers
Comprehension
Read the following items carefully and fill in the correct answer.
1. Storm chasers often get started as
2. Which of these is an opinion from the article?
3. The author’s purpose in writing this article was to
4. In what way are storm chasers better than radar?
Comprehension: Short Response
Read the following items carefully. Restate and use complete sentence to answer the questions.
5. How have storm chasers affected the warning time for tornadoes?
6. Why do storm chasers like the Great Plains?
Vocabulary:
Directions: Read each question. Circle the correct answer.
7.What is a synonym for serious in this sentence?
A serious storm was expected the next day.
8. What is a synonym for forecast in this sentence?
People use scientific methods to forecast the weather.
9.What does the word hazardmost likely mean in this sentence?
The travelers faced a hazard in the mountain pass.
10. What does the word navigate mean in this sentence?
The captain had to navigate the ship into the harbor.
Directions: Write the correct definition for each vocabulary word.
11. serious
12. forecast
13. navigate
14. scene
15. hazard
16. transmit
Grammar - Possessives:
Read each item. Choose the singular or plural possessive form that fits each sentence.
17. The _________ horn was very loud.
18. The _________basketball tournament is this week.
19. Some _____ roots can be cooked and eaten.
20. _______ car is red with a white stripe.
Quotation Marks:
21. Directions: Draw the 3 items to include when using quotations.
A. _________________________
B. _________________________
C. _________________________
Directions: Read each item. Choose the correct use of quotation marks for each question.
22. Which of these has correct capitalization and punctuation?
23. Which of these has correct capitalization and punctuation?
24. Which of these has correct capitalization and punctuation?
25. Which of these has correct capitalization and punctuation?
26. Which of these has correct capitalization and punctuation?