Wolf Island Comprehension Test (myView)
Authored by Monica Gonzalez
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3rd Grade
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension of an informational text about ecosystem balance and food chains, specifically examining what happens to an island's ecosystem when wolves temporarily leave. The questions assess third-grade reading skills including vocabulary in context, author's purpose, cause and effect relationships, drawing conclusions from text evidence, and understanding main ideas. Students need to demonstrate literal comprehension by locating specific information in the text, as well as inferential thinking skills to understand how the removal of a predator species affects the entire food web. The core concepts require students to understand vocabulary words like "depended," "available," and "population" within the scientific context, identify cause-and-effect relationships in nature, and synthesize information to understand the wolves' important role as apex predators in maintaining ecological balance. Created by Monica Gonzalez, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 3. This comprehensive assessment supports instruction by evaluating students' ability to read and analyze informational texts about science topics, making it an excellent tool for interdisciplinary learning that connects reading skills with elementary science concepts. Teachers can use this quiz as a summative assessment following a guided reading lesson, as homework to reinforce comprehension strategies, or as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding before moving to more complex texts about ecosystems. The quiz aligns with Common Core standards including CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1 for asking and answering questions about key details, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4 for determining word meanings, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.8 for explaining how specific aspects of illustrations contribute to meaning, while also supporting Next Generation Science Standards 5-LS2-1 regarding ecosystem interactions and energy flow.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the meaning of the word depended as it is used in paragraph 2?
counted or relied on
health or comfort
ate the food
sat patiently
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.4
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The author wrote this selection most likely to---
persuade the reader to visit an island full of wolves.
describe what the reader needs to take care of a family of wolves.
explain how a food chain is impacted when a family of wolves is missing.
provide information about why wolves like to travel in rafts.
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.6
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RI.2.6
CCSS.RI.3.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read the diagram.
Which sentence best completes the diagram?
The owls had less to eat.
The rabbits and mice had less to eat.
Snow began to fall.
The wolves returned to the island.
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.3
CCSS.RI.4.3
CCSS.RI.5.3
CCSS.RI.6.3
CCSS.RI.7.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which sentence from the story best explains why the family of wolves left the island?
The pups found a strange object at the edge of the water.
Finally, it came to rest on the shore, and the wolf family scrambled onto dry land.
Spring grew into summer on the island, and summer into fall.
The pups couldn't turn the raft back, and the pups were too scared to swim, so the adult wolves swam out to the raft and climbed aboard.
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.6
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RL.2.10
CCSS.RL.3.10
CCSS.RL.4.10
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which word or words is a synonym of available in paragraph 15?
limited resources
ready to use
blocked
awkard
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.4
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
After reading paragraph 29 to 31, the reader can conclude that---
wolves can walk on ice.
wolves cannot walk on ice.
the wolves did not want to return to the island.
snow melts rapidly.
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.2
CCSS.RI.4.2
CCSS.RL.3.2
CCSS.RL.2.2
CCSS.RL.4.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The illustration on page 321 support the idea that---
the deer like to play in the snow.
the wolves were getting hungry.
the animals had plenty of food.
the animals were running out of food.
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.7
CCSS.RI.3.7
CCSS.RI.4.7
CCSS.RL.3.7
CCSS.RL.4.7
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