Welcome Back from Fall Break ELA Review Quiz

Read the paragraph.

(1) Every august you can watch falling stars at night. (2) Some people refer to them as shooting stars. (3) However, these objects from space are not stars at all. (4) In fact, they are small pieces of rock or metal that are burning up as they pass through our atmosphere.

Which sentence has a mistake in capitalization?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Read the sentences from a magazine article about hail.

According to meteorologist Wendy Cas, hailstones are quite remarkable in terms of their structure. She explained Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.

Choose the correct way to punctuate the direct speech in the underlined sentence.

• “She explained, Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.”

• She explained “Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.”

• “She explained Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.”

• She explained, “Each hailstone has rings similar to the rings inside the trunk of an oak tree, and these rings show the different layers that formed the hailstone.”

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

On the day Emily was to return home, she wrote a kind note to her cousins. The message in the note said You’re the best cousins ever. Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.

Which revision correctly punctuates the quotation in the sentences?

• The message in the note said, “You’re the best cousins ever!” “Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.”

• The message in the note said, “You’re the best cousins ever! Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.”

• “The message in the note said You’re the best cousins ever! Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.”

• “The message in the note said You’re the best cousins ever!” “Thanks for letting me stay with you this summer.”

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Fill in the blank: 
____________ walking too fast. 

• Your 
• You're 

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

What tense is the following sentence: 
I am counting.

• present progressive 
• past progressive
• future progressive

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CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Fill in the blank: 
Which superhero is ______________ favorite? 

• your 
• you're 

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

Which of the following is a run-on sentence? 

• I'm bored at Grandma's house. She doesn't have a TV.
• The animals are fascinating I will try to draw them. 
• I like chocolate and vanilla ice cream. 
• I have one dog, and she has three dogs. 

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CCSS.L.4.1F

Fill in the blank: 
Don't go _____________. 

• they're
• their
• there

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CCSS.L.3.1A

What change if any should be made to this sentence?

"My sisters and I had no idea that it would be more amazing than we thought or that we were about to have the time of our lifes!"

• sisters to sister's

• lifes to lives

• lifes to life's

• I to me

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?

"The neighborhood that we stayed in was right on the water, and the houses were all painted colorfully and built on really tall stilts."

• houses to house's

• stilts to stiltes

• stilts to stilt's

• no change should be made

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A