What Do Illustrators Do? Comprehension and Vocabulary
Authored by Tiffany Doughty
English
3rd Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension and vocabulary development centered around informational text about the illustration process. Designed for third-grade students, the assessment evaluates multiple literacy skills including close reading, text analysis, genre identification, and academic vocabulary acquisition. Students must demonstrate their ability to extract specific details from the text, understand the sequential steps of book illustration, identify the author's purpose, and distinguish between different artistic techniques and tools. The questions require students to make connections between textual information and visual elements, analyze how illustrations support meaning, and comprehend specialized vocabulary related to the publishing and illustration process. Students need strong foundational reading skills, the ability to synthesize information from multiple sources within a text, and familiarity with literary terminology to successfully complete this assessment. Created by Tiffany Doughty, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 3. This comprehensive quiz serves multiple instructional purposes in the elementary literacy classroom, functioning effectively as a post-reading assessment following a unit on illustration and book creation, a formative evaluation tool to gauge student understanding of informational text features, or as targeted practice for standardized test preparation. Teachers can implement this quiz as a guided reading follow-up activity, assign it as independent homework to reinforce classroom learning, or use it as a warm-up review before introducing new concepts about text analysis and author's craft. The assessment aligns with Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 for explaining how illustrations contribute to meaning, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1 for asking and answering questions about key details, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.6 for distinguishing author's point of view, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4 for determining word meanings in context.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
How do the pictures of the man and the woman help the reader understand the information in the book?
They show how each illustrator looked
They show which books needed illustrations.
They show how illustrators and authors are alike
They show what each illustrator was thinking and doing
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.K.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The cat and the dog help the reader by...
illustrating the books
showing the reader 32 pages
showing the reader how to do research
asking questions and giving the reader facts
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.3.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The information in this selection tells the reader that illustrators...
can draw very quickly
may dislike working together
may use things from their own lives in their pictures
draw pictures exactly the way the author tells them to
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.2
CCSS.RI.4.2
CCSS.RL.3.2
CCSS.RL.2.2
CCSS.RL.4.2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
How does the woman illustrator change Jack?
She makes Jack a girl.
She makes Jack a giant
She makes Jack very small
She makes Jack mean
Tags
CCSS.RL.1.3
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.K.3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Who explained what the word scale means?
The hen
The giant
the cat and dog
the man illustrator
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The pictures in the selection help the reader understand...
Jack was a little boy
illustrators are usually in the same family
pictures for the same story can look very different
children should not talk while their parents are working
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.K.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The man illustrator used the cat to show...
how the cat liked the beanstalk
how the reader should draw cats
how the cat helped the beanstalk grow
how the beanstalk grew bigger over time.
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.7
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