Reading Comprehension Assessment

Your Fingerprints Are Yours Alone

In most ways, your fingers are pretty much like everybody else’s except in one very important way.  People’s fingerprints are completely unique, unlike anybody else’s in the whole world.  Even identical twins have different fingerprints! 

What do you think unique means?

• special

• tiny

• looped

Everyone's fingerprints are different. True or False

• true

• false

What the story is mostly about is the

• author's purpose

• main idea

• plot

Hints that readers use to figure out a word's meaning are

• events

• answers

• context clues

Is it true that eating the wrong foods as a child can stunt your growth?

• speed up

• increase

• slow down

My hand smarted long after the bee stung it.

• hurt

• hid

• slowed down

The pirates had cached the treasure in a cave where it would be safe.

• produced

• hidden

• pipe

A New Home

One day Tam saw her neighbor Mrs. Simon putting the trash out on the curb.  She noticed that Mrs. Simon was throwing away a plant along with a bag of trash.  The plant was growing in a little white pot.  It was crooked and yellowish, with just a few little leaves.  Tam felt sorry for the plant, out there on the curb waiting to be hauled away.  She decided to rescue it.  Both Tam and her mom had a green thumb and loved to garden, so they brought the plant into their backyard and gave it a new home in the dirt.

Tam didn't care about plants. True or False

• true

• false

A New Home

One day Tam saw her neighbor Mrs. Simon putting the trash out on the curb.  She noticed that Mrs. Simon was throwing away a plant along with a bag of trash.  The plant was growing in a little white pot.  It was crooked and yellowish, with just a few little leaves.  Tam felt sorry for the plant, out there on the curb waiting to be hauled away.  She decided to rescue it.  Both Tam and her mom had a green thumb and loved to garden, so they brought the plant into their backyard and gave it a new home in the dirt.

What did the plant look like on the curb?

• green and healthy

• tall and strong

• crooked and yellowish

What do you think a green thumb means?

• very ill

• good with plants

• good at art work