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WR News Smarts Issue #19
Write in the correct answers for each. Then write the page you found the answer in and the headline of the story.


1. In what country is Ranthambhore National Park?

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I found this answer on page ______

Under the headline _____________________________________ 

 

2.  What award do Fox Meadow Intermediate students give products that they like?

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I found this answer on page ______

Under the headline ____________________________________


 
3. How many feet across will the main mirror on Thirty-Meter Telescope be?

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I found this answer on page ______

Under the headline ____________________________________ 
 


4. About how far is President Lincoln's Cottage from the White House?

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I found this answer on page ______

Under the headline ____________________________________ 


 

 

 

5. Who wrote The Jungle Book?

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I found this answer on page ______

Under the headline __________________________________


 
6. How much more light than other telescopes will Thirty-Meter Telescope be able to collect?

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I found this answer on page ______

Under the headline ____________________________________

 
7. What is the main religion in India? 

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I found this answer on page ______

Under the headline __________________________________


 
8. During what years did the Civil War take place?

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I found this answer on page ______

Under the headline ___________________________











 

 

 


 

 


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Vocabulary Challenge!
Match each new word below with its definition.

                                                                                                     
____ 1. stealthily

____ 2. fragment (verb)

____ 3. poaching

____ 4. nuisance

____ 5. thrive (verb)

____ 6. replica

____ 7. primary

____ 8. mandatory

____ 9. synopsis

A. a summary

B. illegal hunting

C. main

D. to divide

E. required

F. slowly and quietly

G. to succeed

H. a pest

I. a model

 


Get Writing!
Have students write their own reviews, but of common classroom items, such as rulers, calculators, and erasers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

Answer Key:

1. India

found on page 4, Seeing Stripes

2. Sly Fox Award

found on page 7, Shopping Smarts

3. 100 feet across

found on page 6, Gateway to the Galaxy

4. 3 miles

found on page 2, Presidential Pad

5. Rudyard Kipling

found on page 5, Tiger Tales

6. eight times as much light

found on page 6, Gateway to the Galaxy

7. Hinduism

found on page 5, Spotlight on India

8. 1861–1865

found on page 2, Presidential Pad

 

Vocabulary Challenge!

1. F

2. D

3. B

4. H

5. G

6. I

7. C

8. E

9. A

 


Get Writing!

Answers will vary, but we would love to read students' responses. You can send them to WRNews@weeklyreader.com.

 

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