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    Adelina's Whale

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    Adelina is observant. She can tell the month by watching the kinds of birds nesting near her home in the mangroves. She lives in La Laguna, a town far from cities and without amenities like movies or large stores. The town relies on the whales that visit each year, coming to the lagoon to give birth and feed. Adelina recognizes the sounds of whales breathing and enjoys their visits.

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    Adelina is observant. She can tell the month by watching the kinds of birds nesting near her home in the mangroves. She lives in La Laguna, a town far from cities and without amenities like movies or large stores. The town relies on the whales that visit each year, coming to the lagoon to give birth and feed. Adelina recognizes the sounds of whales breathing and enjoys their visits.

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    Adelina is observant. She can tell the month by watching the kinds of birds nesting near her home in the mangroves. She lives in La Laguna, a town far from cities and without amenities like movies or large stores. The town relies on the whales that visit each year, coming to the lagoon to give birth and feed. Adelina recognizes the sounds of whales breathing and enjoys their visits.

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    134 views3 pages

    Adelina's Whale

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    Maya Ayman
    Adelina is observant. She can tell the month by watching the kinds of birds nesting near her home in the mangroves. She lives in La Laguna, a town far from cities and without amenities like movies or large stores. The town relies on the whales that visit each year, coming to the lagoon to give birth and feed. Adelina recognizes the sounds of whales breathing and enjoys their visits.

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    Adelina's Whale
    10 Questions DATE  : 

    1. Which is a distinct character trait of Adelina?

    A She is unhappy. B She is productive.

    C She is outgoing. D She is observant.

    2. What detail support that Adelina is aware and pays attention?

    “Adelina can tell what birds that nest in


    “Adelina Mayoral has lived her whole life
    A B month it is by the mangroves
    in La Laguna.”
    watching the kinds of behind her home.”

    the sounds of
    “Adelina smiles
    whales and
    and returns to “Adelina’s family lives far away
    C breathing and window.” D shopping
    her sleep, from big cities with highways
    snoring outside malls.”
    comforted by
    her

    3. What conclusion can you draw about the town of La Laguna?

    A It is a popular tourist destination. B It is poor.

    There is a great difference in


    C The town needs the whales to survive. D seasons.
    temperature between the

    4. Which statement does not describe how La Laguna is different from many other places?

    La Laguna does not have places for La Laguna does not have any source of
    A B
    seeing films. electricity.

    La Laguna does not have buildings with


    C D La Laguna does not have large roads.
    various stores.

    5. Choose one reason why the whales visit La Laguna each year?

    A to find clean drinking water B to give birth to their young

    C to eat clams found along the shore D to sleep during the winter months
    6. What is the meaning of the word “massive” in the last paragraph of the text?

    A pointed B scarred

    C huge D scaly

    7. Select the meaning of the word “exhaling” in the following


    sentence?
    “It is the sound of a forty-ton gray whale exhaling a room-size blast of hot wet air.”

    A inhaling B blowing out

    C splashing D surfacing

    8. Choose the definition of the word “tide” as used in this sentence?


    “She can even recognize when it is low tide.”

    a time when certain sea creatures come


    A a period when it rains very little B
    to shore

    the long journey some animals make


    C D the rise or fall of ocean waters
    each year

    9. Select the meaning of the word “calf” in the following sentence?


    “At daybreak she runs to the lagoon and sees two clouds of mist out over the water, the
    milky trails of breath left by a mother gray whale and her newborn calf.”

    A baby whale B inlet

    C blowhole D baby cow

    10. What context clue gives a hint to the meaning of "calf"?


    “At daybreak she runs to the lagoon and sees two clouds of mist out over the water, the
    milky trails of breath left by a mother gray whale and her newborn calf.”

    A “lagoon” B “mist”

    C “water” D “newborn”

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