ELA 4th Grade Summer School

What does this idiom mean?
The newest invention is the best thing since sliced bread!

• the invention is awful
• the invention is super
• the invention is useful
• the invention is boring

What type of figurative language is shown?
She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.

• hyperbole
• oxymoron
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

For years scientist have wanted to know the spider's secret.  The threads of spider webs are so tiny, yet so strong.  How can these threads be so strong?  Now scientists have found out.  The inside of the spider's thread is soft.  It helps the web stretch without breaking.  The outside of the web is hard and strong.  This paragraph mainly tells:

• who makes thread soft
• how spiders make strong thread
• how scientists make strong thread
• why spiders spin webs

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Jeff's father was IRATE because Jeff talked to him and had a bad attitude all day long.

• happy
• angry
• not bothered
• tired

Which is the correct way to connect the two sentences?

Brie went to the movies.

Teya went to the movies.

• Brie and Teya went to the movies.
• Brie went to the movies and so did Teya.
• Brie and Teya went shopping.
• Brie went to the movies with Teya.

Which sentence is written correctly?

• The moose has large brown, two antlers.
• The moose has two brown, large antlers.
• The moose has large, two brown antlers.
• The moose has two large, brown antlers.

In the following sentence which word is the preposition? 
The boy ate lunch behind the barn.

• boy
• ate
• behind
• barn

A noun...

• is a person, place, thing, or idea
• shows action
• describes a person, place, thing, or idea
• answers the question how

Which does not have correct capitalization?

• The principal of New Canaan High School emailed parents.

• The Speaker of the House addressed the president.

• The taxpayers are unhappy with governor Malloy.

• The audience applauded Senator Chris Murphy.

What does it really mean? "It's a piece of cake."

• Something is easy.
• Something is delicious.
• Something is soft and warm.