3rd-Grade CAASPP Comprehension Passage 1

Which detail from the passage best explains why the father must stop working in the field?

• The father needs to return home to cook the dinner.

• The father asks the neighbor to do the work in the fields for him.

• The father's sons depend on him to stay home and care for them.

• The father's age makes it too difficult to do farm work any longer.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1

Which statement about the boys is supported by the passage?

• The boys did not share the work equally.

• The boys did not know how to plant a field of rice.

• The young boys wished to surprise their father with a special dinner.

• The young boys preferred to sit in the house instead of working outside.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3

Read the sentences from the passage.

Day after day they dug. Their neighbor was astonished to see how long and hard the young men worked.

What does the word astonished most likely mean?

• disappointed

• discovered

• satisfied

• surprised

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4

Which detail from the passage best shows that the old man's sons are lazy?

• Since the man had to tend the field, the boys took care of the house.

• "Oh, they would," the father replied again "but they are still young."

• Though they sometimes tended the field with him, they always made excuses to go home early.

• The sons were sad, for they not only depended on their father, but they also loved him.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1

Which sentence from the passage best supports your answer in the previous question.

• The sons promised and hurried out to begin.

• As the years went by, it became clear even to their father that the boys were lazy.

• At last, the entire field had been dug, but no treasure had been found.

• The brothers moped around with their heads down.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3

What is the most likely reason the author included the final sentence in the passage? Pick two choices

• to show that the old man's plan had worked

• to show that the boys are mad about being tricked

• to show that the boys are happy about earning money

• to show that the old man does not want the boys to know the secret

• to show that the old man is mad at his boys for not helping him for years

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.5

Which sentence is most likely true about both sons in the passage?

• Both wish that they will always live on the farm.

• both wish to have more treasure than anyone else.

• Both learn that the treasure can have more than one meaning.

• Both want to teach their father how to grow rice in the field.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3

Which of these best describes why the author used dialogue i the passage?

• to describe how the sons and the old man work together

• o describe how the old man shares his secret with his sons

• to explain why the characters behave the way they do

• to explain why the neighbor was interested in the bather's fields

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.5

Read the sentence from the passage.

It became clear, even to their father, that the boys were lazy.

What does the phrase even to their father tell the reader about the story?

• It took the father a long time to teach the boys a new kind of work.

• It took the father longer than others to understand his sons were lazy.

• The father knew all along that his boys did not like to work on the family farm.

• The father knew many other people who could be trained to help him on the farm.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4