Scholastic Reading Inventory

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Sunrise Activity1. Review your current SRI score2. Use a colored marker to write down, on the back

of your hand, the score you want to get today.3. Think – What do you feel is the hardest part of

taking the SRI?

How would you describe this place?• unique• dirty• lonely• ordinary

Baltimore is famous for its neighborhoods. Some neighborhoods have miles of brick row houses. These houses are connected to one another. There is no space between them. Many of the row houses still have their original shiny, white marble steps.

These types of neighborhoods are _____ .

If you need to understand this billboard and are unable to, what are you?

• unsuccessful• painful• tiring• amusing

There were billboards along the wall of the station. Harry walked down the platform and looked at each one for clue number 2. He neared the middle. Nothing. He kept reading each one. He looked closely for any writing other than the sign's message. Still nothing.

Harry's search for the clue was _____ .

If someone were selling the purse on the bottom, what are they trying to do to you?

• prepare• warn• fool• excuse

Q: He was surprised to see that the belt was golden only in front. In back, it was ordinary leather. The vain Porthos had been keepingthe leather half covered with his cloak!

Porthos tried to _____ him.

What is the best verb to go with this picture?

• watched• raced• fixed• bought

Q: I wonder where it is going, the boy would say to himself. He tried to read the signs on the cars as they went by. Many of the trainscarried coal. They were full when they came into Birkenhead. Then they would go back north for more. As the last car of the train rolled by, Norman would wave at the guard. He wished that he could be a guard on a train.

Norman _____ the trains.

Describe the picture.

• noisy• rainy• scenic• short

Q: And then the world turned green as they drove through the San Fernando Valley. This passed, too, as they drove into a region of dryhills. Craggy rocks, red with iron, filled the landscape. It looked like the moon.

It was a _____ drive.

Which word best describes the picture?

• dark• visible• imaginary• scary

Q: I reached out for the small color picture of Jupiter. It was a good photograph. Professor Wolinski's friend had known what he was doing. The picture was very clear. The bright bands of colored gases that circle the planet were easy to see. So was the strange and beautiful "red spot," which has long puzzled many scientists. Many of the planet's satellites, or moons, could also be seen.

Many aspects of Jupiter were _____ .

If you saw this in person,how would you feel?

• astonished• disappointed• amused• rescued

Q:Brenda stopped taking pictures. She and the other members of the expedition stood like statues at the valley's rim. They were just below the roof of clouds that covered the valley. They couldn't believe the sight before them.

They were _____ .

You should eat food like this because it is…

• beneficial• elaborate• avoidable• discouraged

Q:High-fiber, low-fat diets are favored by most scientists and doctors. Foods high in fiber include grains such as rice, whole wheat, barley, corn, oats, and rye. Our bodies also require plenty of fruits and vegetables. Leafy green vegetables are best for us.

Diets high in fiber are _____ .

If you want to show someone the exact expression on his face, you should… it?

• memorize• hear• suspect• ignore

Q:I pretended not to see, if that was what he wanted. But I knew, heaven forgive me, that one day I would put that face, that reaction, into a film. Whatever one learned, whatever one saw, and however private it was, in the end, if one was an actor, one used it.

I would _____ that reaction.

What verb best describes what has happened in the picture?

• translated• delivered• lost• read

Q:Cap Rountree, Tyrel, and I were at a table in the Drover's Cottage when that man with the green eyeshade came up to me and said,"Mr. Sackett? This here message come for you a day or two back. I reckon it's important, and I just now heard you were in town."

The man _____ the message.

What does the snail use its’ tentacles to do?

• see• hear• taste• move

Q:Sea snails usually have one pair of tentacles, or feelers, with an eye at the base of each. Land snails and slugs, and some freshwater snails, have two pairs of tentacles: a short set near the mouth, and a longer set above them. The snail's eyes are at the tips of these long tentacles. The snail raises the tentacles to peer around, and retracts them quickly when it is threatened.

Snails use their tentacles to _____ .

What word best describes this table?

• adaptable• large• weak• curved

Q:In early America, handmade products were crude and plain. As people moved westward, they loaded and unloaded their belongings. Many times cabinets had to pass through small doorways. Furnishings were assembled with mechanical fasteners such as wedges,square pegs or round pins. These fasteners could be removed quickly to disassemble the furniture. To have carved, fragile furniture in this environment was not practical.

Early furniture needed to be _____ .

After the SRI•Review the assignments on your progress report. •Work on assignments you scored poorly on.•MAKE SURE ALL OF THE PAGES IN YOUR RBOOK ARE COMPLETED. THIS SCORE WILL HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON YOUR GRADE.