NYSESLAT 5-6 Test Sampler Quiz

What is the main message written on the sign in the Community Project?

• Remember not to LITTER!

• Remember to recycle!

• Remember to clean!

• Remember to plant trees!

What should you do according to the Community Project sign?

• Not litter

• Litter everywhere

• Ignore the sign

• Throw trash on the ground

Which box shows the correct order of steps that Sehar’s class took to complete the community awareness project?

• Decided on two solutions → Identified a problem in our town → Accomplished our goal

• Identified a problem in our town → Decided on two solutions → Accomplished our goal

• Decided on two solutions → Accomplished our goal → Identified a problem in our town

• Identified a problem in our town → Accomplished our goal → Decided on two solutions

Which phrase helps tell the meaning of "we"?

• My social studies class

• Community awareness project

• Problem in our town

• Find a solution

Which phrase helps explain the meaning of "donated"?

• Decided on two solutions

• Increased community awareness

• Formed a volunteer club

• Gave us free

Which pair of phrases from the e-mail tells the two solutions that the class decided on?

• -suggested ideas

  -accomplished our goal

• -identified a problem

  -improved our town

• -increased community awareness

  -formed a volunteer club

• -noticed a lot of litter

  -marked the areas with the most litter

Read these sentences again.

“Immigrants are people who move to new countries to make a new home and start a new life. They take their cultural ideas to new places with them.”

Which word helps tell the meaning of THEY?

• Countries

• People

• Places

• Ideas

Read these sentences again.

“German immigrants had other ideas about schools, too. They believed in physical education in schools. Because of their ideas, gyms were also built in American schools.”

Which words show what German immigrants believed in?

• About schools

• Physical education

• Because of their ideas

• American schools

Read these sentences again.

“For example, German immigrants brought their ideas about education to the United States many years ago. People in Germany placed a high value on education. Their ideas affected the American school system. German immigrants started the first American kindergarten in 1855. Kindergarten classes already existed in Germany. Today, kindergarten continues to be an important part of the American school system.”

Which phrase tells WHEN German immigrants brought their ideas about education to the United States?

• Many years ago

• Placed a high value

• Today, kindergarten

• Continues to be

Read these sentences again.

“Other examples of new cultural ideas brought to the United States are those from Chinese immigrants. Some ideas they shared long ago were good ways of farming. Their METHODS of farming were very successful in China. They brought these ideas to the United States and shared them with other people.

Which word helps explain the meaning of METHODS?

• Immigrants

• Successful

• Ways

• People