Grade 5
ELA: Reading
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Students can read, understand, and analyze a variety of texts, including stories and nonfiction. This includes identifying main ideas and details, comparing passages, and using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. Students can also draw conclusions and make inferences.
Sample Test Questions
Here are sample test questions that show the skills and concepts students should know and understand in Grade 5.
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A little boy from Scotland was sitting in his grandmother’s kitchen. He was watching the red flames in the wide open…
James Watt and the Teakettle
by James Baldwin
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Select the two sentences that should be included in a summary of the last four paragraphs of the passage.
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A little boy from Scotland was sitting in his grandmother’s kitchen. He was watching the red flames in the wide open…
James Watt and the Teakettle
by James Baldwin
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Read the sentence from the text.
Day after day he thought about it, and evening after evening he sat by his grandmother’s fireside and watched the thin, white vapor come out of the teakettle and lose itself in the yawning black throat of the chimney.
What effect does the author create by using the phrase yawning black throat of the chimney?
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It gives the feeling that steam is very important.
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It gives the feeling that the chimney is very dark and frightening.
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It gives the feeling of being tired and sleepy.
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It gives the feeling that the chimney is very large and wide and swallows the steam.
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It gives the feeling that the chimney is very large and wide and swallows the steam.
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D
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Cuisine and Etiquette in Zambia Zambia’s staple food is maize (corn), and Zambians eat maize in several ways. When the corn is ripe but still green,…
Cuisine and Etiquette
by The Peace Corps
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Which detail from “Cuisine and Etiquette in Zambia” best shows that the father is at the top of the social structure in a family?
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In a traditional setting, boys from the age of seven eat with the man of the house.
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This is because all of the children below the age of seven are under the guidance of their mother.
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The mother eats with the girls and younger boys.
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D
Before eating, everybody washes hands in order of the status of the members of the family: father first, then mother, and others follow according to their age.
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Before eating, everybody washes hands in order of the status of the members of the family: father first, then mother, and others follow according to their age.
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D
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