6th Grade ELA Benchmark Review
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6th Grade
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This 6th grade ELA benchmark assessment focuses on reading comprehension skills using an informational text about urban and rural streams. The quiz thoroughly evaluates students' ability to identify central ideas, analyze author's purpose, determine word meanings in context, make inferences, and understand how textual evidence supports main concepts. Students need strong foundational skills in close reading strategies, including the ability to distinguish between main ideas and supporting details, recognize cause-and-effect relationships, and synthesize information across multiple paragraphs. The questions require students to demonstrate higher-order thinking by connecting textual evidence to broader themes, understanding how authors structure arguments, and interpreting the relationship between text and visual elements like diagrams. Vocabulary skills are heavily emphasized through context clue analysis, particularly with academic terms like "habitat," "impervious," and "diverted." Created by Raquel Brown, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 6. This comprehensive benchmark review serves as an excellent tool for formative and summative assessment, allowing teachers to gauge student mastery of essential reading comprehension strategies before high-stakes testing. The quiz works effectively as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge about informational text structures, as independent practice for students developing close reading skills, or as homework to reinforce classroom instruction on textual analysis. Teachers can use this assessment to identify students who need additional support with evidence-based reasoning or vocabulary development, making it ideal for differentiated instruction planning. The questions align with Common Core State Standards RI.6.2 for central idea identification, RI.6.1 for citing textual evidence, RI.6.4 for determining word meanings, RI.6.6 for analyzing author's purpose, and RI.6.7 for integrating information from text and visual elements.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which sentence states a central idea of paragraphs 1 and 2? (RI.6.2 Central Idea)
Streams are normal parts of natural settings.
Streams are vital resources for people.
Streams are only found outside of cities.
Streams are different in various landscapes.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Part A: What is the author’s purpose for using the phrase “Often they lie low”
in paragraph 2?
to provide an example of an urban stream
to show that urban streams are often polluted
to contrast an urban stream with a rural stream
to show that urban streams are not easily seen
Answer explanation
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Part B
Which quotation from paragraph 2 supports the answer to Part A?
“ . . . when people, buildings, and streets are around.”
“ . . . flowing under sidewalks. . . .”
“ . . . meandering past ball fields. . . .”
“ . . . rippling by shopping centers.”
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RI.7.2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read the sentence from paragraph 3.
Streams, stream banks, and the low lands around them
provide important habitat for animals and plants that share the urban/suburban landscape with us.
What does the word habitat mean as it is used in the sentence?
area
environment
shelter
territory
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
5.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
How do paragraphs 4 and 5 support the central idea that streams are important to urban and rural settings?
They discuss the importance of both types of streams.
They elaborate on how streams provide resources to plants.
They detail similarities and differences of both types of streams.
They explain why natural streams are better than urban streams.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
6.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
How does the author introduce the idea of urban streams?
by pointing out that urban settings also have streams
by preparing readers to think only about rural streams
by getting readers to focus on the characteristics of all streams
by presenting readers with the transition from rural to urban streams
Tags
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read the sentence from paragraph 5.
Instead it hits impervious surfaces like hard pavement and rooftops and has no chance to infiltrate the soil.
What is the meaning of the word impervious as it is used in the sentence?
affected
cracked
exposed
resistant
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
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