Issue: The Clean Water Warrior

Skills Assessment

Name: cenica

Reading Checkpoint:
The Clean Water Warrior
Fill in each correct answer.

1. What is this issue mostly about? 4. Look at the photo in the middle of
[main idea] page 3. What does the caption tell
A how Mari helped her community you? [nonfiction text features]

B why Flint’s water was unsafe A how the water became unsafe
C how to donate money B where Mari got the water
bottles from
2. When Mari was 8, what person did C how many water bottles
she write a letter to about the Mari bought
problem in Flint? [key details]

A her best friend 5. The article says Mari was surprised

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B her teacher when the president came to Flint.
C the president Which part of the article shows
why she was surprised?
[making inferences]
3. What does it mean to donate
something? [vocabulary] A “Mari wasn’t sure anything would

A to take something away happen. She was just a kid,

and he was the president!”
B to give something
B “Mari has raised more than
C to make a speech
$500,000!”
C “She believes that kids like
you have a lot of power.”

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