4th Grade FSA Reading

John was bewildered when his new pet hamster that he thought was a boy had babies.  

• happy
• confused
• afraid
• amused

What is the definition of the highlighted word?
Unlike my frugal mother, I don't bother shopping at sales or clipping coupons.  

• Careful 
• Thrifty
• Careless
• Wasteful

When he didn’t understand the instructions, the student asked the teacher to clarify them.

• remove
• call
• explain
• stop

What is the main idea?
 There are many types of lethal venom in the animal kingdom, but perhaps no stranger carrier than the platypus. The platypus is one of few venomous mammals.  Males carry a venom cocktail in their ankle spurs that incapacitates victims with excruciating pain.  Stranger still, the platypus is the only mammal that uses electroreception.  What this means is that the platypus uses its bill to sense the electricity produced by the muscular movements of its prey.  The platypus neither sees, hears, nor smells its prey while hunting but, rather, pursues it through electroreception.  Perhaps most odd, the platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs rather than giving birth to live young.  The platypus is an odd creature indeed.  

• The platypus is an odd, poisonous creature.
• Platypus males have a poison ankle spur.
• Platypus can sense electricity
• None of these options

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

What is an alliteration?

• All of the above
• an action that's alliterate
• the occurrence of 3 or more words that rhyme with each other and are adjacent. 
•  the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

What is the BEST strategy to determine the theme? 

• Look at what the main character learns and how they change to determine what the author wants you to know.
• Look at the answer choices and think about what makes sense.
• Think mostly about your life and how it applies.
• Just choose C!

Which word is a synonym for expanding?

• searching
• planning
• growing
• observing

How can you know that something is written in first person point of view?

• pronouns like I, my and him are used
• the author is addressing the reader
• the narrator is not in the story
• pronouns like I, my and we are used

She liked ice cream, but he liked cake. So they bought both.

• 3rd person POV
• 1st person POV
• 2nd person POV

If you want to do well on your FSA reading and math, you need to focus and pay attention in class. You must do homework nightly and have a growth mindset. 

• 2nd person POV
• 3rd person POV
• 1st person POV