Language Arts 1 Term 3 Writing Pre Assessment

Read the sentences. Mateo walked with his kids through the zoo. They saw many animals. Which correctly identifies the part of speech of each underlined word?

• walked: verb; They: noun

• walked: adjective; They: noun

• walked: verb; They: pronoun

• walked: adjective; They: verb

Read the sentence. Let Grandma sit in the front seat. Which words are nouns?

• Let, sit

• Grandma, front

• Let, Grandma

• Grandma, seat

Read the sentence. It was a fun day, but I didn’t like waiting in the long lines. Which words are adjectives?

• It, but

• day, I

• fun, long

• was, like

Read the sentence. The plane arrived earlier than I expected. Which correctly identifies the part of speech of each underlined word?

• arrived: verb; earlier: adjective

• arrived: verb; earlier: adverb

• arrived: adjective; earlier: adverb

• arrived: adverb; earlier: verb

Read the sentence. It took honesty to admit to breaking the window. Which correctly identifies the underlined words?

• honesty: concrete noun; window: concrete noun

• honesty: concrete noun; window: abstract noun

• honesty: abstract noun; window: concrete noun

• honesty: abstract noun; window: abstract noun

Read the sentence. The people in the seaside village live happy lifes. Which correction should be made to the sentence?

• Change people to peoples.

• Change people to people.

• Change village to villagees.

• Change lifes to lives.

Read the sentence. Yesterday, we ______ for our trip early in the morning. Which word correctly completes the sentence?

• leave

• leaved

• left

• lefted

Which of these is written correctly?

• Next week, we planned our summer vacation.

• Last summer, the kids spend time at camp.

• Next summer, they will stay at home.

• We finally make the decision yesterday.

Which sentence is written correctly?

• Sarah and I enjoys bowling.

• I hears the siren approaching.

• My dog hates thunderstorms.

• Joe visit the park everyday.

Read the sentence. on the Fourth of July, we bought Sparklers at the Grocery store. Which of these has correct capitalization?

• on

• Fourth of July

• Sparklers

• Grocery