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The Sandpiper
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4th Grade
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Erin Lavelle
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This quiz focuses on poetry analysis and vocabulary development, targeting essential English Language Arts skills for fourth grade students. The content covers fundamental literary elements including figurative language (similes, metaphors, alliteration), poetic devices (meter, rhyme), and thematic analysis of nature poems. Students must demonstrate vocabulary knowledge through antonyms, synonyms, and word meaning recognition, while also analyzing how poets use literary techniques to create imagery and convey themes about animals and nature. The questions require students to identify descriptive language, understand poetic comparisons, and recognize how authors use sound devices and figurative language to enhance their writing. This level of analysis, combined with the vocabulary complexity and the expectation that students can distinguish between different types of figurative language, aligns perfectly with fourth grade reading comprehension and literary analysis standards. Created by Erin Lavelle, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 4. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a formative assessment tool to gauge student understanding of poetry elements, a review activity before summative assessments, or homework practice to reinforce classroom learning about figurative language and poetic devices. Teachers can use individual questions as warm-up activities to start poetry lessons or deploy the entire quiz to assess student progress in literary analysis skills. The quiz effectively supports classroom instruction by providing immediate feedback on student comprehension of complex literary concepts while building essential vocabulary knowledge. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.4 (determining meaning of words and phrases including figurative language), CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2 (determining theme from details in text), and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5 (demonstrating understanding of figurative language and word relationships).
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What word means the OPPOSITE of outstretched?
closed
empty
filled
open
Tags
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which pair of words RHYME?
trail, try
none, day
chart, heart
mail, charm
Tags
CCSS.RF.1.2A
CCSS.RF.2.3A
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.K.1D
CCSS.RF.K.2A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which word means almost the SAME as creative?
strong
talented
understood
worried
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the word brittle mean?
simple to do or try
easily broken or destroyed
horrible to taste or smell
difficult to open or close
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following words is NOT descriptive?
balanced
high
pretty
rock
Tags
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following lines is a simile?
I fell and hurt my arm
She walked to the door
He moved as slowly as a snail
We went to the store with Billy
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
Which of the following is part of meter?
length
rhyme
syllables
words
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.5
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.4.5
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.5
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