The purpose of this reading inventory is to return a test score that directly correlates to the reading level of the student being tested. Read the following selection and answer as many questions as possible in 3 minutes! At the completion of the test, match the test score with the appropriate grade level listed at the bottom of the page. This button will open the "Timer" window which will allow you to "Start" the timer. After you have started the timer, go to work on the Inventory. The timer will ask you to "Stop" when the time has elapsed. Your Mouth Do you know that your mouth is like a little mill? Your teeth grind food. The front teeth are shaped to bite the food into bits. The others are made to grind it fine so that it can be made into liquid by the stomach. Probably you have twenty-four teeth now, but when you grow up you should have thirty-two. Enamel is the hard outer covering on the teeth. To crack nuts with your teeth might break this enamel, and it will not grow a second time. Down in the middle of the tooth is a nerve. When the enamel is broken this nerve feels the hear or cold. Soon the tooth begins to ache. If you want this mill of yours to work well for a long time, you must take very good care of it. 1. What is like a mill? teeth mouth stomach nerves 2. How many teeth do children your age usually have? 16 20 24 32 3. How many teeth do most grown people have? 16 20 24 32 4. On the outside of the teeth ther is enamel bone muscle nerves 5. In the center of the teeth we find enamel bone muscle nerves 6. The enamel on the teeth is soft cold hard liquid 7. The front teeth bite food grind food soften food chew food 8. The enamel may be broken by chewing dry food cleaning the teeth biting on hard things drinking hot or cold things 9. If the enamel is once broken, when does new enamel form? in a few days in a few weeks in a few years never 10. This is a lesson in geography health history nature Your score is out of 10 Click on the appropriate grade level for a list of equivalent reading books. Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Grade Level 2.3 2.6 2.9 3.2 3.5 3.8 4.1 4.5 4.8 5.2 5.8
This button will open the "Timer" window which will allow you to "Start" the timer. After you have started the timer, go to work on the Inventory. The timer will ask you to "Stop" when the time has elapsed.
Your Mouth Do you know that your mouth is like a little mill? Your teeth grind food. The front teeth are shaped to bite the food into bits. The others are made to grind it fine so that it can be made into liquid by the stomach. Probably you have twenty-four teeth now, but when you grow up you should have thirty-two. Enamel is the hard outer covering on the teeth. To crack nuts with your teeth might break this enamel, and it will not grow a second time. Down in the middle of the tooth is a nerve. When the enamel is broken this nerve feels the hear or cold. Soon the tooth begins to ache. If you want this mill of yours to work well for a long time, you must take very good care of it.
teeth mouth stomach nerves
2. How many teeth do children your age usually have?
16 20 24 32
3. How many teeth do most grown people have?
4. On the outside of the teeth ther is
enamel bone muscle nerves
5. In the center of the teeth we find
6. The enamel on the teeth is
soft cold hard liquid
7. The front teeth
bite food grind food soften food chew food
8. The enamel may be broken by
chewing dry food cleaning the teeth biting on hard things drinking hot or cold things
9. If the enamel is once broken, when does new enamel form?
in a few days in a few weeks in a few years never
10. This is a lesson in
geography health history nature
Your score is out of 10
Click on the appropriate grade level for a list of equivalent reading books.