End-of Year Grammar Assessment

Read the following paragraph carefully, and then answer questions 1–4. Summer is the very best time of year! Our family always goes to the beach, and we play in the sand and surf for days. We love to build sandcastles and watch the waves creep in and flatten them. The next day we just build them again. If we’re lucky, we will see the dolphins swimming offshore. Tulips bloom in the spring. I can’t wait for summer to arrive, so we can head toward the ocean again!

• Our family always goes to the beach and we play in the sand and surf for days.

• Tulips bloom in the spring.

• I can’t wait for summer to arrive so we can head toward the ocean again!

• Summer is the very best time of year!

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CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

Read the following paragraph carefully, and then answer questions 1–4. Summer is the very best time of year! Our family always goes to the beach, and we play in the sand and surf for days. We love to build sandcastles and watch the waves creep in and flatten them. The next day we just build them again. If we’re lucky, we will see the dolphins swimming offshore. Tulips bloom in the spring. I can’t wait for summer to arrive, so we can head toward the ocean again!

• Our family always goes to the beach and we play in the sand and surf for days.

• Tulips bloom in the spring.

• I can’t wait for summer to arrive, so we can head toward the ocean again!

• Summer is the very best time of year!

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CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

Which of the following is an irrelevant sentence in the paragraph?

• Our family always goes to the beach, and we play in the sand and surf for days.

• Tulips bloom in the spring.

• I can’t wait for summer to arrive, so we can head toward the ocean again!

• Summer is the very best time of year!

Which of the following would be the best title for the paragraph?

• Tulips are Beautiful

• Summer Fun

• Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring

• Dolphins Swim in the Surf

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Number the following sentences in order as they should appear in a paragraph about making scrambled eggs:

• 1. Get the eggs out of the refrigerator. 2. Mix the eggs with a splash of milk and a dash of salt and pepper. 3. Cook the eggs over a low heat so they don’t burn. 4. Enjoy your warm scrambled eggs with toast and jam!

• 2. Mix the eggs with a splash of milk and a dash of salt and pepper. 1. Get the eggs out of the refrigerator. 3. Cook the eggs over a low heat so they don’t burn. 4. Enjoy your warm scrambled eggs with toast and jam!

• 1. Get the eggs out of the refrigerator. 3. Cook the eggs over a low heat so they don’t burn. 2. Mix the eggs with a splash of milk and a dash of salt and pepper. 4. Enjoy your warm scrambled eggs with toast and jam!

• 4. Enjoy your warm scrambled eggs with toast and jam! 1. Get the eggs out of the refrigerator. 2. Mix the eggs with a splash of milk and a dash of salt and pepper. 3. Cook the eggs over a low heat so they don’t burn!

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CCSS.L.4.1D

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

Choose the answer with words that are nouns.

• played, gym, early

• game, seats, seconds

• game, excited, gets

• thrilled, gym, final

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

Choose the answer with words that are verbs.

• thrilled, arrived, stayed

• excited, early, best

• thrilled, greatly, final

• excited, gym, get

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Choose the answer with words that are adjectives.

• thrilled, large, best

• game, early, final

• large, best, climactic

• all, large, until

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

Choose the answer with words that are adverbs.

• excited, early, climactic

• Elementary, early, stayed

• greatly, enthusiastically, early

• Scottsville, best, final

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Draw a vertical line to separate subject and predicate in the following sentence. The striped hot air balloon | drifted high in the puffy clouds.

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CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I