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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grade ELA Student?

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The 5th Graders are participating in the ______ Book Challenge.

a)

0

b)

10

c)

20

d)

40

2.

How does knowing a story's genre make reading easier?

Choose the best answer.

a)

Books are shorter for certain genres.

b)

You can skip parts of the story.

c)

You can predict what might happen in the book.

d)

You know how the story will end.

3.

Knowing roots, prefixes, and suffixes can help a reader breakdown unknown words into parts that they know.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

In the word autograph, graph means…

a)

to read.

b)

to draw a picture.

c)

to write.

d)

to measure something.

5.

What kind of book is about a person and written by that person?

a)

biography

b)

autobiography

6.

Which of the following is NOT a story element?

a)

characters

b)

setting

c)

inferences

d)

plot

7.

What two questions does setting answer?

a)

What happened? Who was involved?

b)

Who is involved? Why are they involved?

c)

When and where does the story take place?

d)

Who are the main characters and what is the problem?

8.

Who is a protagonist in a story?

a)

the main character

b)

the character that causes problems for the main character

9.

Which part of plot is the introduction of a story?

a)

rising action

b)

climax

c)

exposition

d)

resolution

10.

Which part of the plot is the most intense?

a)

rising action

b)

exposition

c)

climax

d)

resolution

11.

What is an inference?

a)

An educated guess using background knowledge and text evidence.

b)

A comparison of two things using like or as.

c)

The who, what, where, when, and how of a story.

d)

Something you can see, hear, taste, or touch in a story.

12.

What is schema?

a)

text evidence

b)

background knowledge

c)

your best educated guess

d)

how long you can read before losing focus

13.

honest : dishonest

optimistic : _________

a)

positive

b)

disoptimistic

c)

trustworthy

d)

pessimistic

14.

How do authors indicate internal dialogue?

a)

italics

b)

quotation marks

c)

underline

d)

they don't

15.

Which external dialogue is correctly formatted?

a)

“I love reading, she said.”

b)

“I love reading,” she said.

c)

I love reading she said.

d)

“I love reading” she said.

16.

The narrator is always a character in the story.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

What is needed for a good summary?

Choose ALL that apply.

a)

the most important information in a story

b)

all information comes directly from the text

c)

only one paragraph

d)

contains NO opinions

18.

What is the root word in pedestal?

a)

ped

b)

stal

c)

pede

d)

des

19.

background knowledge + text evidence = ________

a)

schema

b)

inference

c)

plot

d)

story elements

20.

You should read different genres of books to...

Select ALL that apply.

a)

improve vocabulary

b)

develop broader perspective of the world

c)

discover a new favorite genre

d)

stretch you as a reader