OSAS ELA Grade 5 Practice Questions - Oregon Statewide Assessment System - English Language Arts, Grade 5 Exam

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Read the passage below before answering the question. The Tide Pool Discovery (1) Lena crouched on the slippery rocks at Yaquina Bay and peered into a shallow pool. Sunlight sparkled on the water, and tiny green anemones waved their soft tentacles like fingers reaching for food. (2) A purple sea star clung to the far wall of the pool, its arms slowly curling around a mussel. Lena held her breath and watched. She had read that sea stars can pull open shells with their tube feet, but she had never seen it happen. (3) 'Don't touch it,' her older brother Marco warned from behind her. 'They're more fragile than they look.' Which sentence from the passage best shows that Lena is seeing something new to her?

Sunlight sparkled on the water, and tiny green anemones waved their soft tentacles like fingers reaching for food. A purple sea star clung to the far wall of the pool, its arms slowly curling around a mussel. She had read that sea stars can pull open shells with their tube feet, but she had never seen it happen. 'Don't touch it,' her older brother Marco warned from behind her.

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She had read that sea stars can pull open shells with their tube feet, but she had never seen it happen.

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