Quarter 2 Benchmark Review

GUIDE WORDS: Help guide you through the dictionary to find the word you are looking for.

Which word would appear on a dictionary page with the guide words?

cabbage-clerk

Which guide words would appear on the same dictionary page with "closet"?

Which source would a student use to do research on their favorite president?

Which reference source would you use to find a map of our country?

Choose the words that use the

suffix –y the same as it is used in the

word sweaty.

What is the root/base word of

unbelievable?

Jenny decided to reheat her

leftovers from dinner in the

microwave.

What does reheat mean?

Read this sentence:

Amy was lively.

In which word is -ly used the same as it is in lively?

How exciting it was to win the class

spelling bee!

Choose the words that are ANTONYMS for exciting.

Which word sounds the same, but

has a different meaning and

spelling as the word scene?

Using homophones - choose the correct word from parenthesis.

A girl is known as a female, and a boy is known as a ____________ (mail, male).

Using homophones - choose the correct word from parenthesis.

The __________ (cent, sent, scent) of the candle was delightful.

What is the purpose of the picture of the clock on the right?

Which section shows that chopped nuts are optional to include?

This feature explains what the illustration/photograph is. It tells you what you see in the picture.

Located in the back of the book this feature gives the definitions of important vocabulary words?

This is an example of a ___________?

This is an example of ____________ text feature? NOTICE THE LABELS added to the picture.

Which text structure shows similarities and differences between two or more things?

Which structure tells the order that events occur?

The Loggerhead is an easy turtle to identify. The Loggerhead has a reddish-brown upper shell and a dull brown to yellowish lower shell. Hard scales cover the shells and the number of scales is used to figure out what type of Loggerhead it is.

Which text structure would you use?

Living things adapt to their environment so they can survive.  An organism adapts when it develops a behavior that makes it more likely to survive.  It can also adapt by forming a physical characteristic or body part that helps it survive.  What does the word adapt mean in the first sentence?

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?

Lobsters are a kind of ocean creature called crustaceans. Crabs and shrimp are crustaceans too. Lobsters, and most other crustaceans, are found throughout the world's oceans, often under rocks or in cracks on the sea floor. Lobsters have five pairs of legs, three of which are claws. The front claws, sometimes called pincers, are larger than the others. Scientists believe lobsters can live up to 70 years! People love to eat lobsters! The state of Maine is famous for the lobsters found along its Atlantic coast. Here, lobsters are often served with melted butter, corn on the cob, and French fries. Did you know that lobsters only turn red after they are cooked? In the wild they can be grayish, yellow, green, blue or multi-colored. 

Where are crustaceans often found? Choose the best answer.

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.

What is a summary of this passage?:

The problem in a story is the...

What is the time and place of the story?

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

Who is telling the story when the story uses words such as I, me, we, our, etc.

Who is telling the story when the story uses words such as them, they, he, she, or a characters name?

Jacob said, "I never want to eat that much ice cream again! I had a stomach ache for 3 days." Still, he went to cold stone with is friends the next day.

Who is telling the story?

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She was happy to know she had so many options to choose from!

Which of the following traits best describes Jill?

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She was happy to know she had so many options to choose from!

Which of the following feelings best describes Jill?

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.

What is a summary of this passage?:

Paul overslept. 

What's the effect ? 

Meg hung her Shootin' Hoops medal up in her room. It was gold with a shiny red ribbon hanging from it. Nowhere on that medal did it say "Granny Style." She had practiced hard and succeeded in her own way, without fretting or feeling bad about what other people thought.

What question is answered in this paragraph?