Q2 Review Poetry

​1. Read the poem.
2. Complete your Think Sheet.
3. Answer the questions using text evidence.
4. There are two questions at each table.

Multiple Choice

1. What is most likely the poet's purpose for using a descriptive text structure in the poem?

• A. To explain where the beach is located

• B. To share the experience of building a sandcastle

• C. To show what a sandcastle looks like

• D. To highlight what makes a sandcastle special

Multiple Choice

2. Read lines 6 and 7 from the poem. What is the most likely reason the poet uses this imagery in the poem?

"To make the sand muddy and damp, to work with it by hand.

Now pile the sand up in the center - as much as your fingers can."

• A. To show that the beach is near the sea

• B. To suggest that best friends are building the sandcastle

• C. To show that the activity of sandcastle building is done by hand

• D. To describe how the sand feels

Multiple Choice

3. Which message does the poet express in the poem?

• A. Building sandcastles is a fun way to pass time and make memories.

• B. The water at the beach changes quickly.

• C. The sand must always stay wet.

• D. Sandcastles building is too messy.

Multiple Choice

4. Lines 1 through 4 are important to the poem because they -

• A. introduce the speaker's problem

• B. describe the setting

• C. ask the reader important questions

• D. identify the speaker's friend

Multiple Select

5. Which lines from the poem best helps the reader picture the speaker’s sandcastle? Pick two answers.

• A. Let’s fill a bucket with water and pour it on the land.

• B. To make the sand muddy and damp, to work with it by hand.

• C. To start a mighty castle on the playground made of sand.

• D. Then make the sand like towers; form walls that stretch up high.

• E. Now pile the sand up in the center - as much as your fingers can.

Multiple Choice

6. Read lines 15 and 16 from the poem. These lines emphasize that the speaker most likely feels —

"So let's skip on home to dinner, looking back once more to say,

"We built a mighty castle on the playground on this day.""

• A. worried that the sandcastle is not finished

• B. confused about what will happen to the sandcastle

• C. surprised by the height of the sandcastle

• D. pleased to have spent the day working on a sandcastle

Multiple Choice

7.  In stanza 3, the reader can conclude that the speaker —

• A. has more important tasks than finishing the sandcastle

• B. would rather build the sandcastle alone

• C. is not yet satisfied with the sandcastle

• D. is unsure of how the completed sandcastle should look

Multiple Choice

8. What is a synonym for the word fountain in stanza 1?

• A. sea

• B. sand

• C. palm tree

• sandbox