Scrabble is a game that provides hours of challenging fun for you and your friends. In this game you use your letters to build new words from words already on the game board. Scrabble is a fun way to learn new words and meanings. What is the main idea of the passage?

Scrabble is challenging and fun.

Scrabble is a good game for Scrabble is a good game for building vocabulary.

It takes skill to play a good game.

Scrabble can take hours to play.

Someday we will all have robots that will be our personal servants. They will look and behave much like real humans. We will be able to talk to these mechanical helpers and they will be able to respond in kind! Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience. They will be smart, strong, and untiring workers whose only goal will be to make our lives easier. What is this selection mainly about?

Someday we will have robots that will be our personal servants.

We will be able to talk to robots and they will be able to respond.

You should give up if you are the Robots will look and behave much like real humans.

Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience.

Benjamin Franklin invented many things that made life easier in the late 1700's. He invented the lightning rod that saved many homes from fires. He also invented the Franklin stove. The stove could heat a room better than a fireplace and saved people a lot of fuel. He also invented a special kind of glasses called bifocals. This new kind of glasses helped people to read better. What is the main idea of this paragraph?

Benjamin Franklin was a great inventor.

Benjamin Franklin thought reading was important.

Benjamin Franklin was not afraid of fire.

A Franklin stove can heat a whole room.

Test Prep Reading

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English

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3rd - 4th Grade

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Practice Problem

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CCSS

RI.3.2, RF.3.3B, RL.5.1

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Margaret Anderson

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15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Years ago mothers couldn't always watch the tiny children who were just learning to walk. They tied a big soft pillow around the child's middle. This was called a "pudding." No matter how often the baby fell, he couldn't get hurt. You can infer that:

mothers didn't like their little children

mothers had a lot to do

many children never learned to walk

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Arlene turned the radio up full blast, but her brother told her to turn it down because he had a headache.

so it exploded

as loud as it would go

quickly

as quiet as it would go

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

For years scientist have wanted to know the spider's secret. The threads of spider webs are so tiny, yet so strong. How can these threads be so strong? Now scientists have found out. The inside of the spider's thread is soft. It helps the web stretch without breaking. The outside of the web is hard and strong. This paragraph mainly tells:

who makes thread soft

how spiders make strong thread

how scientists make strong thread

why spiders spin webs

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What is the Author's Purpose?

A fictional story about my childhood adventures.

Factual

Entertain

Inform

Persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

You are reading a story about 3 talking pigs...Fiction or Non-Fiction?

Fiction

Non-Fiction

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

An INFORMATIONAL text

is fiction

is nonfiction

could be either

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

A book with wizards and magic would be considered...

realistic fiction

autobiography

fantasy

historical fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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Test Prep Reading

15 questions

Years ago mothers couldn't always watch the tiny children who were just learning to walk. They tied a big soft pillow around the child's middle. This was called a "pudding." No matter how often the baby fell, he couldn't get hurt. You can infer that:

Arlene turned the radio up full blast, but her brother told her to turn it down because he had a headache.

What is the Author's Purpose?

A fictional story about my childhood adventures.

You are reading a story about 3 talking pigs...Fiction or Non-Fiction?

An INFORMATIONAL text

A book with wizards and magic would be considered...

A type of text that provides facts about many different topics. They are meant to “inform” the reader.

The ball went through the _______ just as the buzzer sounded at the end of the game!

I was excited to get a new ___________.

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Test Prep Reading

15 questions

Years ago mothers couldn't always watch the tiny children who were just learning to walk. They tied a big soft pillow around the child's middle. This was called a "pudding." No matter how often the baby fell, he couldn't get hurt. You can infer that:

Arlene turned the radio up full blast, but her brother told her to turn it down because he had a headache.

What is the Author's Purpose?A fictional story about my childhood adventures.

You are reading a story about 3 talking pigs...Fiction or Non-Fiction?

An INFORMATIONAL text

A book with wizards and magic would be considered...

A type of text that provides facts about many different topics. They are meant to “inform” the reader.

The ball went through the _______ just as the buzzer sounded at the end of the game!

I was excited to get a new ___________.

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What is the Author's Purpose?

A fictional story about my childhood adventures.