Choose the word that names the picture.

 

 

Choose the answer that means the same as the bold word.
 

Frank walked behind David

Choose the picture that shows the meaning of the highlighted word.

 

The eggs are in the basket.

Choose the answer that means the same as the highlighted word.

The story wasn't funny.

Ants work very hard. Each ant has some work to do. Some ants make the hills where all the ants live.

Many ants find things to eat. Other ants look after the newly hatched ants.
 

Which sentence tells the main idea best?

Follow these directions.

Draw three baseballs. Make a box around the first ball. Put an X on the second ball. Put a Z above the last ball.

 

Choose the answer that looks most like yours.

FACT OR FANTASY
Choose the answer that tells what could not really happen.

Max was at the restaurant. He took out his wallet to pay the bill. The money ran away. Max lost a twenty-dollar bill.
 

What could not really happen?

FINDING FACTS AND DETAILS

The lawn was covered with leaves. In the morning. Jim raked them into big piles.

After lunch, Jim put all the leaves in bags. Then he put the bags by the street.

"The men will pick up the bags tomorrow," Jim thought.
 

What did Jim do in the morning?

USING CLUES

Millie heard the wind blow. Then she saw the tree fall. The car was smashed.
 

What fell on the car?

MAIN IDEA
 

Kate has a very old hound dog named Sammy. Sammy was given to Kate as a present on her 30th birthday.

Sammy's fur is thin and gray. His eyesight and hearing are not good. His left ear is chewed up.

Even so, Kate loves Sammy more than any of her other dogs.

What is the main idea of this story?

                          MISSPELLINGS

Look at the word above. What is the root word?

CHOOSE THE ANSWER

Choose the answer that means the same as the bolded word.

Rachel slowly turned the doorknob and looked into the dark closet.

Eric is saving his money because he wants to buy a new bike. The bike he wants is blue with gray racing stripes.

Every day on his way home from school, Eric looks at the bike in the store window.

In one month, he hopes to have enough money to buy it.

Why is Eric saving his money?

The coach said to the players, "You did a fine job. We had a good, fair game."
 

The pronoun you stands for which noun?

Sean sat in the back of the crowded school bus. It was snowing hard outside.
Traffic was moving very slowly. Sean's coach had canceled practice after school.

He believed the snowstorm would be bad. Sean felt disappointed at first.

Then he saw how much snow was on the ground. He thought the coach made a smart decision.

Which of the following is stated as a fact in this story?

How many comedy movies were rented?

 

In Florida, there is a fish known as the walking catfish. It has gills so that it can breathe under the water. It also has lungs!

The walking catfish can breathe the air just like you and I do. Sometimes the lakes or ponds where these fish live will dry up.

When this happens, the walking catfish can move over the land to another body of water.

The fish uses its fins to lift the front of its body off of the ground. Then it pushes with its tail and moves across the land.
 

Complete the sentence.

The walking catfish has ………………… .

Jane threw the ball. Amy swung the bat as hard as she could. The bat hit the ball with a little noise.

Pop! Amy began to run. The ball rolled slowly toward second base. Jack ran to get the ball. He tripped over his shoelaces.
He fell down. Marie picked up the ball. She tried to throw it. It dropped out of her glove. She dropped it three times.

Amy ran to second, third, and home. She was thrilled. "I hit a home run!" she shouted.

What were the children doing?

One day Burt stayed home to paint the kitchen. He put his dog Spike outside and covered the floor with old newspapers.

Burt took great care that everything was just right. Then he started painting. When Molly came home from school,

Burt was sitting on a ladder painting the ceiling. Molly opened the door and went inside. Spike came in too.

"Down, Spike!" shouted Burt. Then there was a loud crash. The ladder was broken and everything was covered with paint.

Burt spent the rest of the day washing the kitchen floor. Molly spent the rest of the day giving Spike a bath.
 

What did Spike do in the kitchen?

Rita had an accident. She stepped on the cat's tail and spilled spaghetti all over the dog. The cat ran under a chair.

The dog ran all around the house. Rita's young son, Bobby, helped clean up the mess.

Rita was angry, but when she saw Bobby laughing, she started laughing too.
 

Complete the sentence.

Bobby thought the accident was ............ .

Choose the answer that means the same as the highlighted word.

The old bear could not adapt to life in the zoo.

People with weak immune systems contract infections more readily.

What does the word 'contract' mean in the sentence above?

Melissa looked in the mirror. She straightened the collar of her blouse and smoothed a stray wisp of hair into place.

Then she brushed a small speck of lint from her skirt. She wanted to look her best for the job interview.

Read the paragraph. Which sentence best states the main idea?

From the 1800s to the early 1900s: many children in the United States worked in factories.

At that time, there were no laws against children working. Factory owners hired children because they were a source of cheap labor.

In the factories, children worked long, hard hours for very little pay.

Many children as young as 7 years old worked 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Older boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 14 labored up to 15 hours a day to help support their families.
 

According to the paragraph, which of the following caused factory owners to hire children?

Cindy blinked at the lights of the oncoming cars. As she drove on, her head nodded.

She decided to turn on the radio and open the window. Still, Cindy could feel her eyes trying to close.

Which sentence below best expresses the main idea of the above paragraph?

A few months ago, my friend Henry noticed that his right arm was hurting.
The doctor immediately put Henry in the hospital for an operation.

The doctor told Henry and his wife that the operation could leave Henry disabled.

Every day Henry's wife visited him in the hospital and brought him his favorite things to cheer him up.

She would cry when no one was looking, but then she would go back to helping Henry.

When he came home, she fed him and washed his face until he was strong enough to do it alone.

Now Henry can do everything he did before. He's just fine.

Which is the best conclusion that can be made based on the information in the paragraph?

Since the early 1900s, fingerprinting has helped police convict criminals.
Trained officers use a powder-like substance to dust an object thought to have been touched by the criminal.

The dust clings to moisture left by the criminal's finger, and the print appears.

The officers who are trained to uncover fingerprints are extremely clever.

Today, using computers, these officers are able to match a fingerprint to one on file in a matter of hours.
 

Which sentence is an opinion?

Each of these lists contains the same six words.

Which list is in alphabetical order?

 

A.	B.	C.	D.
engine entrust fiber filter fashion fatigue	fashion fatigue fiber filter engine entrust	engine entrust fashion fatigue fiber filter	fiber filter fashion fatigue entrust engine

 

From "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes

Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard.
He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred.
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord's daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

Which of the following lines from the poem contains an example of onomatopoeia?

From Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees in the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through,

and closed immediately behind. It was as lonely as could be.... He glanced fearfully behind him....

Which word best describes the mood of this passage?