ACAP ELA

Soccer is known in some countries as football. It is a popular sport across the world, with over 200 countries playing the sport. It is estimated that over 250 million people, both men and women, play soccer. The sport has been part of the Olympic games from 1900 to 1928 and from 1936 to today.
 What is the main idea?

• Soccer is important at the Olympics.
• Soccer is a worldwide sport.
• Soccer is also called football.
• Soccer is played by men and women.

What does the word nourishing mean in the sentence below?
We ate a nourishing lunch before competing in the game.

• huge
• light
• powerful
• healthful

A story is told from the perspective of the main character referring to himself/herself as ”I”

• foreshadowing
• conflict
• first person point of view
• third person point of view

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

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 thought reading was important.
• Benjamin Franklin was not afraid of fire.
• A Franklin stove can heat a whole room.
• Benjamin Franklin was a great inventor.

Choose the best answer that completes the analogy below: 
Hot is to _________ as wet is to dry. 

• cold
• dangerous
• yellow
• fire extinguisher

Read the information below and answer the question that follows.
It was April Fool's Day. Liam couldn't wait to pull a prank on his brother, Dan. He has been planning it for weeks. His mom and dad were even helping him. Once, Dan placed friend's snake into Liam's sock drawer. Another time he placed a tarantula beneath Liam's pillow. Dan was always pulling pranks on Liam, but today was Liam's turn to turn the tables on him. Mom bought the "creatures" and dad helped Liam put them in their places. As usual, Dan made himself some scrambled eggs for breakfast and was eating them at the breakfast table when the rest of his family came in to the kitchen. Liam and his mom stood by the stove and pretended to cook. Dad sat down at the table with a bowl, cereal, and some milk. When Liam asked Dan a question, Dad put some worms on Dan's plate. Dan turned to take a bite of his eggs but screamed in terror at the sight! Mom, Dad, and Liam erupted in laughter. They had got Dan good!
According to the story, what is one way that Liam achieves his prank on Dan?

• He asks his friend to loan him some worms
• The entire family entered the kitchen and ate breakfast
• Mom purchased the worms, and dad put them on the plate
• The worms were wiggly and slimy 

The information in the box to the right is important because it provides information about - 

• the change in service hours on Easter Sunday
• the address and phone number of the church
• what to bring to the egg hunt
• the time the music will begin on Easter Sunday