Expository writing: TIME FOR KIDS

Go to http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/ and click grades 5 and 6. Read the COVER STORY entitled "Lunch Lessons." Edition 5–6: Magazine Quiz
What’s Cooking? November 5, 2010

Use this week’s issue of TIME For Kids (Edition 5–6) to answer the questions. For each question, write the answer on your own paper or print out a copy and circle the best answer.

Comprehension  QuizArticle: “Lunch Lessons”

(Identify Main Idea)
1. This story is mostly about
A. school gardens.
B. athletes helping kids get
more exercise.
C. a typical day for a chef.
D. chefs helping to improve
school lunches.
Article: “Lunch Lessons”
(Recall Facts and Details)
2. As part of the Chefs Move to
Schools program, chefs
A. teach cooking classes.
B. help plant school gardens.
C. create healthy recipes for
cafeterias.
D. All of the above
Article: “Lunch Lessons”
(Interpret Vocabulary in Context)
3. You can tell from reading the
first paragraph that basil is a
type of
A. pepperoni.
B. fruit.
C. herb.
D. dough.
Article: “Lunch Lessons”
(Identify Cause and Effect)
4. Schools serve processed and
packaged foods because they
A. are healthy.
B. are often loaded with salt.
C. cost less.
D. taste the best.
Article: “Lunch Lessons”
(Identify Fact and Opinion)
6. Which statement is a fact?
A. Growing vegetables is fun.
B. Nobody should eat pepperoni.
C. Basil is delicious.
D. More than 1,000 chefs have
joined the Chefs Move to
Schools program.