Q3 benchmark review

Multiple Choice

Which sentence about horses is a fact?

• Horses eat hay and oats.

• Horses are excellent eaters.

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Which sentence about milk is an opinion?

• We get milk and other dairy products from cows.

• Drinking milk is the best way to get strong bones.

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Which sentence is an opinion?

• Spiders have 8 legs.

• Spiders are probably scared of humans, too.

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The snow was as white as a cloud.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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The snow danced around in the wind.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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After running the mile, Little Bobby was a rock laying on the ground.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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Running the mile was like climbing Mt. Everest.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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Mrs. Molnar was as happy as a lark when all of her students made A's in her class.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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What does genre mean?

• A type, or kind, of book

• Something to read

• The characters in a book

• A French word

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What is the main idea of the following poem:
The horse stood tall
Above them all.
He towered like a king
Such a beautiful thing.
He trotted with grace
With a perfect pace
The blue ribbon all a glow
He had finally won the show.

• The horse won the show
• The horse is ugly
• The horse was tired
• The horse was up on a hill

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What are synonyms?

• words that have the same meaning

• words the dont mean the same

• I don't know

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Which word has the same meaning as "BIG"?

• small

• huge

• tall

• shiny

Multiple Choice

Which tone is represented in the following passage?
"Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!"

• Annoying
• Excited
• Calm
• Scary

Multiple Choice

Choose the positive mood woods...

• cheerful

• gloomy

• suspenseful

• lighthearted

Multiple Select

“They were standing in a sunlit field, and the air about them was moving with the delicious fragrance that comes only on the rarest of spring days when the sun’s touch is gentle and the apple blossoms are just beginning to unfold.” (67)

• Peaceful

• Suspenseful

• scared

• Exciting

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Which meaning of branch is used in the sentence below?

My brother joined the military last week. The branch he chose to join is the Army.

• (n) limb growing from a tree

• (n) a part of a company or organization

• (n) a small section of a river

• (n) an offshoot of a structure

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Which meaning of bank is used in the sentence below?

I went to the bank with my mother yesterday. She put her paycheck into her account and got some money to buy food.

• (n) a pile or heap

• (n) a steep hill or incline

• (v) to cover a fire

• (n) a business where money is kept

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What is the meaning of bed?

I helped my father in the yard this weekend. I pulled all the weeds out of the flower bed. He gave me five dollars for helping him.

• (n) a piece of furniture for sleeping

• (n) a small plot of planted land

• (n) the ground surface below a body of water

• (n) a deposit, as of ore

Multiple Choice

Which definition goes best with Sequence?

• Shows how two things are alike

• Describes events/items in order

• Tells about a problem and offers solutions

• A topic/idea is described by listing features

Multiple Choice

Signal words such as first, next, finally, then are used in ______.

• Description

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Sequence

Multiple Choice

Which graphic organizer would go best with Sequence text structures?

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Is this a sequence text structure?

Ex: Every morning, I wake up at about 7:00 AM. The first thing I do is make my bed and pick out the clothes I’m going to wear. Then, I brush my teeth and take a shower. After my shower, I dry my hair and get dressed.

• Yes

• No

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What is a suffix?

• word part at the end
• word part at the beginning
• word part in the middle
• root word

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What is a prefix? 

• Word part in the middle
• word part at the end
• root word
• word part at the beginning

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A prefix goes _________of a word.

• at the end
• at the beginning
• in the middle

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A suffix goes _______of a word.

• at the beginning
• in the middle
• at the end 

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The prefix in the word dishonest is?

• un
• potato
• dis

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The prefix in unpleasant is?

• non
• un
• dis

Multiple Choice

Find the word that has a suffix.

Henry the king was working hard.

• Henry

• Working

• King

• ing

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Find the word that has a prefix.

Miss Wydler reread the story.

• Miss

• Reread

• Wydler

• Re

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What is the suffix in wonderful?

• ful

• woner

• wonderful

• wo

Multiple Select

ADDING SUFFIX -LY RULES

#1 For most words: just add -ly (root word doesn’t change).

soft → softly

Which words follow this rule?

• basically

• quickly

• safely

• happily

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What is the root word of friendly

• frie

• -ly

• friend

Theme

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The message or lesson that the author wants you to learn from the story is called the

• plot

• figurative language

• theme

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One way you could figure out the theme is to...

• Skim through the story

• Just read the beginning of the story

• Think about what the character has learned

Multiple Choice

Susie was waiting for Tina to arrive in the crowded lunch room. She looked through the crowd to see if she could spot Tina from afar. Tina was standing in an area all by herself. She had a perplexed look on her face, as there were no other seats available. Thankfully, Susie had saved her a seat, and all was well.

• Lunch is best when it's crowded

• Be nice

• Friends should look out for each other

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Jim was stacking boxes at work. There was a certain height he had to reach. He stretched his body, but could not reach to place the final box at the top. Bill happened to see Jim struggling and came to his rescue, since he was a foot taller.

• teamwork can accomplish a goal

• tall people are the best

• work hard to reach a goal

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"You can do it!" shouted her father, as he pushed Chloe and let go. She was going on her own, but suddenly fell. She cried, but said, "Again, daddy!" This time she went farther but fell into the ditch. A few moments later, she was riding down the street, smiling from ear to ear.

• you should never give up

• your family will do anything for you

• when you are greedy, you will fall down