Your Skeleton

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1. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   what your digestive system does and how to keep it healthy what your brain does and how to keep it healthy what your skeleton does and how to keep it healthy what your heart does and how to keep it healthy
2. Details What is the job of your skeleton?

   to hold your body up and protects the soft parts inside to break food down into nutrients your body can use to move your body to control everything your body does
3. Vocabulary What does "joint" mean?

   a place where two bones meet and can move a tiny opening in the skin the tubes that carry blood around the body the parts of food the body uses to grow and stay healthy
4. Cause and effect According to the passage, why does this job matter?

   Your body needs one control center to make all its parts work together. Without a skeleton, your body would have no shape and your brain and heart would have no protection. Nutrients from food pass from the small intestine into your blood to feed every cell. Blood carries oxygen and food to every part of your body, so it must keep moving.
5. Details Which fact is in the passage?

   Skin is the largest organ of the body. Messages can travel along some nerves faster than a race car. A child's heart beats about 70 to 100 times a minute when resting, and faster when running. A baby has about 300 bones, but some join together as it grows, so an adult has 206.
6. Inference Which habit would the author most likely recommend?

   Clean air and exercise keep the lungs healthy; smoke harms them. Calcium from foods like milk, yogurt and leafy greens helps bones grow strong. Sleep gives the brain time to rest and to store what you learned that day. Washing and sunscreen help protect your skin.
7. Evidence Which sentence explains how it does its job?

   Bones meet at joints, which let you bend your knees, elbows and fingers. Calcium from foods like milk, yogurt and leafy greens helps bones grow strong. It is a strong muscle about the size of your fist that squeezes and relaxes without ever stopping. A baby has about 300 bones, but some join together as it grows, so an adult has 206.

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