Wordly Wise Lesson 5 Review Book 5
Authored by Jennifer Blackwelder
English
5th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on vocabulary development within the context of mountain climbing, specifically Mount Everest expeditions. Designed for 5th grade students, the assessment targets advanced vocabulary acquisition through contextual comprehension and semantic understanding. Students must demonstrate their ability to select appropriate vocabulary words based on context clues, syntactic patterns, and meaning relationships. The core concepts involve understanding specialized terminology related to mountaineering, weather phenomena, geographical features, and human emotions and motivations. Students need strong reading comprehension skills to analyze complex sentence structures, identify contextual meanings, and apply vocabulary knowledge to authentic scenarios. The quiz requires students to differentiate between similar words, understand connotations, and recognize how vocabulary choices affect meaning and tone in descriptive and narrative texts. Created by Jennifer Blackwelder, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 5. This vocabulary review quiz serves multiple instructional purposes in the elementary English language arts classroom, functioning effectively as a formative assessment tool, homework assignment, or review activity following direct vocabulary instruction. Teachers can implement this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge, use it for independent practice to reinforce newly learned vocabulary, or deploy it as a summative review to gauge student mastery of Wordly Wise Lesson 5 vocabulary. The contextual approach strengthens reading comprehension while building academic vocabulary, supporting students' ability to decode meaning from surrounding text. This assessment aligns with Common Core State Standards L.5.4 (determining meaning of unknown words using context clues), L.5.6 (acquiring and using grade-appropriate vocabulary), and RI.5.4 (determining meaning of academic vocabulary in informational text).
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What is it that attracts men and women to risk their lives climbing Everest? The __________ of the mountain is hard to explain to nonclimbers.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Perhaps George Mallory thought it foolish for someone to ask him why he wanted to climb Everest. That might explain his _________ reply, "Because it's there."
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Mallory made several unsuccessful attempts to climb Everest. The __________ was not just to reach the top, but to be the first to do so.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Mallory's final climb up Everest took place in 1924 and ended with his death. Several ________ attempts had also ended in failure.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Thousands of people have tried to climb Everest. The mountain's extreme weather ___________ the attempt by five out of six climbers.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Nervous people would not enjoy mountain climbing. Looking down a thousand-foot _________ mountain face while dangling from a rope can be especially scary.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The height of Everest has been carefully measured. Its __________ is twenty-nine thousand and thirty-five feet above sea level.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
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