Storm Warriors Comprehension Journey's Grade 5
Authored by Diana Mahar
English
5th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension skills through analysis of "Storm Warriors," a narrative text about ocean rescue operations during a dangerous storm. The questions assess fifth-grade level comprehension abilities including identifying narrator perspective, making inferences about character motivations and emotions, drawing conclusions from textual evidence, analyzing point of view, and predicting outcomes. Students need strong foundational skills in distinguishing first-person narration, understanding character development through dialogue and actions, recognizing cause-and-effect relationships, and synthesizing information to make logical predictions. The complexity requires students to move beyond literal comprehension to analytical thinking, interpreting implicit meaning in character interactions and understanding how narrative perspective shapes the reader's experience of events. Created by Diana Mahar, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 5. This comprehension quiz serves as an excellent tool for reinforcing close reading strategies after students have completed the "Storm Warriors" text from their Journey's curriculum. Teachers can deploy this assessment as a formative evaluation to gauge student understanding of key literary elements, use it as guided practice during small group instruction, or assign it as independent work to reinforce comprehension skills. The quiz effectively supports classroom instruction by requiring students to cite textual evidence, analyze character perspectives, and demonstrate higher-order thinking skills essential for meeting reading standards. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards RL.5.1 (quoting accurately from text), RL.5.3 (comparing characters and analyzing their interactions), and RL.5.6 (describing how narrator's point of view influences story events).
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
After reading the first paragraph of the story, the reader can tell the narrator is
on a boat
in the water
in the building
on the shore during a storm
Tags
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.2.1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What conclusion can be drawn from this comment? "It was unthinkable, what these men were doing. Violence swirled around us-a deadly, churning mix of wind and sea. And these surfmen were walking into it"
the narrator thinks the surfmen are foolish
the narrator thinks the surfmen are in serious danger
the narrator thinks the ship's crew will save the surfmen's lives
the narrator thinks the surfmen will fail to save the ship's crew
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.1.6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Which sentence from the passage is the best evidence that the passage is written in the first-person point of view?
"powerful waves smacked them in the chest"
"one of them goes down, we'll haul them both back in"
"I would never be able to do what these men were doing"
"Mr. Meekins was carrying something a little larger than a Lyle gun"
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.1.6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
If the author had chosen one of the experienced surfmen as the narrator, the events would most likely seem less
honest
important
normal
overwhelming
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The ship's crew believes that
women and children should be saved first
the surfmen should have been able to save their ship
the captain should have been the last one to leave the ship
Nathan saved all their lives because of his medical knowledge
Tags
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.3.6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The reader can infer that the child is frightened because he
is wet and shivering
gets wrapped in a warm blanket
clings tightly to the narrator's neck
cries more softly as the narrator holds him
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.6.1
CCSS.RI.4.1
CCSS.RL.4.1
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which quote from the passage shows that Nathan starts to feel useful in his role as a surfman's helper?
"she patted his shoulder and smoothed the hair off his forehead"
"'no, only Arthur, she said. 'He took quite a fall when the ship ran aground'"
"...I recalled the words from the medical books and they comforted me with their matter-of-factness"
"...I held a compress against the man's head wound while Mr. Bowser began to remove his wet clothes"
Tags
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
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