6th 5-a-day, Week 5

Choose the context clues that help you understand what rustic means.

The cabin was furnished with rustic, hand-carved furniture. The pine chairs wobbled and squeaked when you sat on them, and the table was covered in knots.

• cabin

• hand-carved furniture

• pine chairs wobbled and squeaked

• when you sat on them

• covered in knots

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Choose the misspelled word.

• excede

• impede

• modest

• resist

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2B

Choose the sentence that uses a nonrestrictive element correctly.

• Our car broke down on the freeway.

• Our car broke down (a red sedan) on the freeway.

• Our car a red sedan broke down on the freeway.

• Our car (a red sedan) broke down on the freeway.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

Choose the correct pronoun for the sentence. Identify if it is subjective, objective, or possessive.

The coach is teaching Mark and (I, me) how to pitch.

• I

• Me

• Subjective

• Objective

• Possessive

Tags

CCSS.L.6.1A

Choose the synonym for: scatter

• disperse

• cluster

• destroy

• organized

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5C

Complete the sentence with an appropriate intensive pronoun.

My grandfather built this house _____ in 1956.

• yourself

• himself

• ourselves

Tags

CCSS.L.6.1B

An elusive creature...

• is unable to defend itself.

• is difficult to find.

• is easy to catch.

• is aggressive.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

Choose a matching analogy.

atrocious : bad

• amazing : dull

• critical : strange

• thunderous : loud

• calm : fun

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

Choose the word with the connotation that best fits the sentence.

Jared puts his nervous patients at ease because he is (chatty, conversational).

• chatty

• conversational

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

What figure of speech is used in the sentence below?

They fought like cats and dogs.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personafication

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4