WorksheetsDouble Dutch Story Test
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
At the beginning of the article, five girls are
going on a picnic
learning to jump rope and practicing double Dutch
an award winning double Dutch team
a great basketball team
The first thing Coach Rockett does is
learn to jump rope himself
organizes the Double Dutch team and goes to the olympics
gets an idea by looking out the window
quit the team
Which sentence indicates that the article is moving back in history?
"Life for the Snazzy Steppers wasn't always so sweet."
"Coach Rockett even wrote a song to help his girls how to jump.."
"Forty girls showed up!"
"They were so scared."
At the beginning of the article, why does the author describe the team in such detail?
to show how their uniforms look
to show how well they work together as a team
to show how different each of the girls are
to speed up the story
What happens between the team's first competition in Harlem and their win in New York?
the team members quit the team
they get new uniforms
they do better at each competition
they get lost in New York
What does this sentence from the story mean?
"It's as if they were rowers on the same boat..."
It means they are rowing a boat fast.
It means they are in unison, working together.
It means they don't work together well.
It means they are moving really fast.
The Snazzy Steppers become best friends
before they join the team
when the coach tells them to
the first time they win a trophy
after they compete together for a long time
Which statement best proves that this article has a narrative structure?
It reads like a fairytale.
It is a tall tale.
The events are real.
It is about several different people.
The songs in this article have a strong rhythm most likely because
the girls like to sing
Coach Rockett wanted to make the songs slow
strong rhythms match the movements of jumping rope
it made the girls work harder
Read this stanza from the article...
I had a little puppy.
His name was Tiny Tim.
I put him in the bathtub,
to see if he could swim.
Which of the following contribute to the rhythm in the stanza above?
a story
a puppy
funny words
rhyming words
Recite
trying to do better
to say a text from memory
become very skilled
a repeated series of movements
Unison
making the same movements at the same time
identical
one essential part of a whole
trying to do better than other people or teams
Identical
Opposite
Almost the same
Exactly the same
Frightened or nervous
Competition
frightened or nervous
trying to do better than other people or teams
becoming very skilled at something
a repeated series of movements
Mastered
became very skilled at something
not doing well
being the boss
having confusion
