WEEK 16
DAY
Name:________________________________ Date:___________________
1
Directions Read the text and then answer
the questions.
SCORE
A new video game was shown in 1958. It was called 1._
Tennis for Two. It was a first. People had never seen
a game like this. It was played on a screen. This was
amazing. It was a new invention. It led to many new video 2._
games. People are still playing video games today.
1. What is the most 3. Which word has a 3._
important idea? suffix, or word ending?
A Tennis for Two was A video 4._
shown in 1958.
B playing
B Tennis for Two
C people
was amazing. ____ / 4
C Tennis for Two was
D today Total
the first of many
video games. 4. Which definition of led
D Tennis for Two was is used in the text?
about tennis. A moved in a direction
B directed
2. What did Tennis for
Two lead to? C was the leader
A a real tennis game D guided
B a new game on a screen
C more video games
D Tennis for Three
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WEEK 16
DAY
2 Name:________________________________ Date:___________________
Directions Read the text and then answer
the questions.
SCORE
1._ Children used to play outside a lot. It was what they
did for fun. Today, children watch a lot of television. No
one agrees on how much television is healthy for a child.
2._ Children look at computers and play video games as well.
This all adds up to more screen time than ever.
3._
1. Which title best fits 3. What is the suffix, or
the text? word ending, in the
word computers?
4._
A Screen Time
B Playing Outside
A com–
C An Unhealthy Habit
B –rs
____ / 4
D What Is Fun?
C –puters
Total
D –ers
2. What is the big change
described in the text? 4. What does the phrase
screen time mean in
A Kids never play outside. the text?
B Kids are in front of A time spent in front of
screens more than ever. a screen
C Screen time is making B a clock on the screen
kids sad.
D Screens are
C the type of screen
getting larger. D the size of a screen
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DAY
Name:________________________________ Date:___________________
3
Directions Read the text and then answer
the questions.
SCORE
Internet users must be smart. Children have to know 1._
how to move around a website. They must be able to
search online. They also must watch what they post online.
Children should never chat with strangers online. Having a 2._
parent nearby to help is a good idea.
3._
1. Which idea is not 3. Which word has the
included in the text? same suffix as the
word having?
A An adult should help
4._
kids use the Internet. A shaved
B Strangers are on B have
the Internet.
C C taking ____ / 4
Kids need to know how Total
to be smart on the D cave
Internet.
D Getting around online is 4. Which of these words
very easy. mean the same thing?
A nearby and smart
2. What is not something
that kids must know B online and Internet
about going online?
C parent and kids
A how to move around D move and search
a website
B how to watch what
they post
C how to chat
with strangers
D how to search online
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DAYS
4–5 Name:________________________________ Date:___________________
A New Kind of Game
Older people grew up playing different games than
what children play today. Board games were a lot of fun.
Monopoly was popular many years ago. So were checkers
and chess. Marbles have been around for a long time.
Children today still play those games. Yet they also play a
new kind of game.
Video games have grown more popular over the past
few decades. Arcade games were a big hit in the 1970s
and 1980s. This also was the birth of computer games.
More children had access to these new screens. They were
hooked. The games were fast and fun. A lot of action
happened on the screen at one time. Plus, many of the
games could be played solo. A player could go up against
the computer. That was a fun challenge.
Children loved playing video games. Many did not have
video games in their own homes. They had to go to an
arcade. Sometimes, friends would gather at a house. They
would all share the video games there.
Over time, it was more
common for people to
have their own games
at home. Video-game
screens also shrank. They
went from a large screen
in an arcade to a small
screen in your hand.
It is hard to know
what will be next. What
will be the great game
of the future?
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WEEK 16
DAY
Name:________________________________ Date:___________________
4
Directions Read “A New Kind of Game” and then
answer the questions.
SCORE
1. Which shows a 3. Which definition of 1._
connection to the text? birth is used?
A I want to read books in A related by blood
my free time. 2._
B a new baby being born
B Looking at small
C a person’s heritage
screens hurts my eyes.
3._
C I enjoy playing many
D the start of something
kinds of games,
including video games. 4. What is explained in 4._
D I don’t know the rules this text?
of Monopoly. A the rules of Monopoly
5._
B the shrinking size of
2. How does the author
video games
describe arcade
games when they were C the history of games ____ / 5
first invented?
D games of the future Total
A a big hut
B a big hat 5. Which best summarizes
the text?
C a bit hot
D a big hit
A Arcade games are
very large.
B Video games are
for boys.
C Video games have
grown more popular.
D Video games bring
children together.
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DAY
5 Name:________________________________ Date:___________________
Reread the text “A New Kind of Game.”
SCORE
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Think about how the games that children like to
play are changing all the time.
Write about the kind of game you would invent for
the future.
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