myview grade 2 EOY test review

What is one way you can tell if a selection is a drama?

• The narrator is not one of the characters.

• There is more than one character in the story.

• Characters' names appear before the lines they speak.

How does the reader know where a drama takes place?

• The characters explain where they are.

• The setting is explained at the end of a drama.

• The setting is explained at the beginning of a drama.

After all the practice was done,

the girls played hard and won!

What happens after the girls practice?

• They win the game.

• They lose the game.

• The decide they are not ready to play.

Everyone's cheers were loud,

which made them very proud.

They scored goals with their feet,

And celebrated with pizza to eat.

How can the reader tell this is a poem?

• The lines rhyme.

• The setting changes.

• The characters are different.

MARSHA: Do you think we're going to win tomorrow?

SIMONE: Don't worry. We are going to be ready.

MARSHA: I need to practice passing.

Marsha can best be described as being --

• confident that they will play well.

• unhappy about having to practice.

• unsure about whether they will win.

The number of daylight hours changes throughout the year.

What is the central idea?

• The amount of daylight changes throughout the year.

• The amount of daylight becomes very short during the winter.

• The amount of daylight is much longer during the summer.

In the U.S., the sun rises earlier in the summer than it does in the winter. It also sets later in the summer than it does in the winter. This gives us more hours of daylight.

What can the reader conclude about darkness in the summer?

• There are fewer hours of darkness than in the winter.

• There are more hours of darkness than in the winter.

• There are the same number of hours of darkness as in the winter.

The author's main purpose for writing an informational text is to tell--

• an entertaining story.

• to give facts about a topic.

• to persuade you to like winter.

The longest day of the year is June 21. Every day after that, the sun is out a little bit less until December 21.

What happens after June 21?

• the longest day of the year.

• hours of daylight get longer.

• hours of daylight get shorter.

We have lived here for a ____ time.

• long

• before

• often