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Read the passage, then answer the questions. Write your responses using details from the text.
1. Read the passage below. Then answer the questions that follow.
The Kite and the Wind
Every afternoon, Imani walked to the park near her grandmother's apartment and tried to fly her kite. The kite was bright red with a long yellow tail, a gift from her father before he moved to work in another city. For three weeks, the kite never left the ground. Other children laughed as Imani ran across the grass, dragging the kite behind her.
Imani asked her grandmother for help. Her grandmother sat on the bench and watched carefully. 'You are fighting the wind,' she said. 'You are running away from it. Turn around and run toward the wind. Let it do the work for you.'
Imani stared at her grandmother, then turned and faced the breeze. She ran forward. The kite lurched, dipped, and then — for the first time — climbed into the sky. Imani laughed out loud as the yellow tail danced above the treetops.
On the walk home, Imani thought about what had changed. She had not gotten a new kite. The wind had not gotten stronger. She had only changed her own direction. It struck her that many problems in life might work the same way: sometimes the answer is not to push harder but to change the way you are looking at the problem.
— Original passage
2. Which sentence from the passage best expresses the theme of the story?
A Other children laughed as Imani ran across the grass, dragging the kite behind her. B The kite was bright red with a long yellow tail, a gift from her father. C Sometimes the answer is not to push harder but to change the way you are looking at the problem. D She had not gotten a new kite. The wind had not gotten stronger. 3. In two or three sentences, summarize what happens in 'The Kite and the Wind.' Include only the most important events. Do not copy sentences word-for-word from the passage.
4. What is the theme of 'The Kite and the Wind'? State the theme in one sentence, then explain how at least two details from the passage support that theme. Use the phrase 'For example' or 'In the text' at least once in your response.
5. Think about a time — from your own life or from another story you know — when someone solved a problem by changing the way they thought about it instead of trying harder. In three to four sentences, describe that situation and explain how it connects to the theme of 'The Kite and the Wind.'
6. The theme of a story is different from the plot because the theme states a ___ about life that the story teaches, while the plot tells what happened.
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