Module 1 week 3 assessment

What is the story mostly about?

• a girl who finds a new book to read

• a girl who magically gets a pet dragon

• a girl who wishes she could have a pet

• a girl who makes up tales about dragons

Is the story written from the first-person or third-person point of view? Use details from the story to support your answer.

How does the author show that words are from the book Yuka finds?

• by writing the words from the book in italics

• by placing dashes around the words from the book

• by writing the words from the book in quotation marks

• by starting a new paragraph for the words from the book

Read the sentences from paragraph 9.

Give her back? No way! That book didn't know what it was talking about. This dragon was harmless.

Think about the suffix -less. What is the meaning of harmless above?

• not able to be trusted

• not going to get very big

• not going to hurt anyone

• not able to be hurt by others

Read the sentence from paragraph 11.

She gave a joyful "EEP!"

Now read the sentence from paragraph 16.

Smoke poured out of her nose as -WHOOSH- a small flame escaped her mouth.

Why does the author most likely use all capital letters for "EEEP" and "WHOOSH?"

• to show that sounds are powerful

• to show that Yuka is imagining the sounds

• to show that Yaka is surprised by the sounds

• to show that the sounds are on the book's cover

What is the main THEME of the story?

• Large animals do not make good pets.

• Saying good bye to a loved one is hard.

• People cannot get everything they want.

• Listen to warnings the first time around.

What is the best way to write sentences 4 and 5 as one sentence?

• The plum tree is not very large, or it still gives some shade on sunny days.

• The plum tree is not very large, so it still gives some shade on sunny days.

• The plum tree is not very large, and it still gives some shade on sunny days.

• The plum tree is not very large, but it sill gives some shade on sunny days.

What is the correct way to write sentence 7?

• It has a lot of plums, at the end of summer we can make plum pie.

• It has a lot of plums at the end of summer so we can make plum pie.

• It has a lot of plums at the end of summer, so we can make plum pie.

• NO change is needed.

What is the best way to write write sentences 2 and 3 as 1 sentence?

• The plum trees grows flowers in spring and fruit in summer?

• The plum tree grows flowers in spring, it grows fruit in summer.

• The plum tree grows flower and fruit in spring and summer too.

• The plum tree grows flowers in spring, and grows fruit in summer also.