5th Grade Language Arts Checkpoint #4

4th Nine Weeks

Name: ______

Date: ______

Choose the underlined word that is misspelled in each sentence.

1.  It is important to eat breakfast every mourning before going to practice.

A.  important

B.  breakfast

C.  mourning

D.  practice

2.  The students were led to the auditorium, but they were never told why they were their.

  1. led
  2. auditorium
  3. never
  4. their

Identify the types of sentences written below.

3.  Children, please stop talking so loudly.

A.  declarative

B.  imperative

C.  exclamatory

D.  interrogative

4.  Can you find a new place to play chess?

A.  declarative

B.  imperative

C.  exclamatory

D.  interrogative

5.  Take the garbage can back down the street where it belongs.

A.  declarative

B.  imperative

C.  exclamatory

D.  interrogative

Identify the part of speech for each underlined word.

6.  Yesterday, we saw a beautiful sunset over the ocean.

  1. adverb
  2. pronoun
  3. adjective
  4. preposition

7.  The coach ordered us to get on the bus immediately.

A.  noun

B.  verb

C.  adverb

D.  adjective

8.  Your charm and good looks are hardly going to help you in this situation.

  1. noun
  2. verb
  3. adverb
  4. adjective

9.  The steel building collapsed during the earthquake.

A.  possessive noun

B.  preposition

C.  conjunction

D.  adjective

10.  Fred’s car began to overheat, and steam was everywhere.

  1. adverb
  2. possessive noun
  3. preposition
  4. conjunction

Read the selection and answer the following questions.

Georgia Peach

On a plate in front of me

Sits a Georgia Peach.

It once grew on a tall tree

High and out of reach.

The ripe fruit fell on the ground

Like a present from the sky.

I picked it up and ran around

So happy I could fly.

I took the peach home with me

As quickly as I could.

I washed it off and I could see

The peach would taste so good.

Now upon a plate it sits

Fuzzy, round, and sweet.

Here I sit and look at it,

My very own treat to eat.

11.  Which of the following best describes the selection above?

A.  poetry

B.  biography

C.  science fiction

D.  autobiography

12.  The author’s purpose in writing this selection is to ______.

  1. debate an issue
  2. inform
  3. persuade
  4. entertain

13.  Which of the following best describes how the speaker feels in the selection?

A.  angry

B.  excited

C.  confused

D.  sad

14.  Calling the peach “a present from the sky” suggests that the speaker _____.

  1. really likes peaches
  2. was expecting a present
  3. received a gift box of peaches
  4. does not know where the peach came from

Read the selection and answer the following questions.

Grasshoppers Cause Problems in Western U.S.

In some places in the West, you couldn’t step without squashing dozens of grasshoppers. There were millions of them, people say. A lot more grasshoppers than usual hatched this year because of dry, hot weather. And millions of grasshoppers meant big problems for farmers.

The grasshoppers traveled in huge bunches called swarms. The swarms went from field to field, eating farm crops. Workers tried to kill the swarms by spraying insect killer from planes. But the swarms covered lots of land and spraying was difficult.

Officials say grasshoppers may be a big problem next year too. This year the grasshoppers left billions of eggs that might hatch next summer.

15.  In the second paragraph of the passage the word swarm is printed like this – swarm. It is probably printed this way because it

A.  ends the sentence that contains the main idea of the passage.

B.  is a word which has many meanings

C.  makes the number of grasshoppers seem huge.

D.  may be a new vocabulary word for the reader

16.  The eggs left behind by grasshoppers this year will probably create a problem again next summer if

  1. the weather is dry and hot.
  2. workers continue to spray insect killer.
  3. framers plant the same crops.
  4. the grasshoppers are all killed this year.

17.  The best person to tell you about damage caused to the crops by the grasshoppers would probably be a

A.  police officer.

B.  teacher.

C.  farmer.

D.  supermarket owner.

18.  Which sentence is an opinion?

  1. Workers tried to kill the swarms.
  2. Grasshoppers may be a big problem next year.
  3. Millions of grasshoppers were a big problem for farmers.
  4. Grasshoppers can eat every plant in a field.

19.  Is this selection an example of ______.

A.  poetry

B.  fiction

C.  non-fiction

D.  biography

Choose the best answer for the following reference questions.

20.  Which would be the best source for information about the geography of Africa?

  1. atlas
  2. almanac
  3. dictionary
  4. thesaurus

21.  Which heading in an encyclopedia would you look under to find out how many home runs Babe Ruth hit?

A.  records

B.  homeruns

C.  Ruth, Babe

D.  Yankee Stadium

22.  What question can Pedro answer using a thesaurus?

  1. What is the capital of Maine?
  2. What word means the same as funny?
  3. What do bears do when they hibernate?
  4. Does it ever snow in Spain?

23.  Kim is studying her chapter assignment for English Literature. She came across the terms literal and figurative. Which of these would tell her the pronunciations of those terms?

A.  the index

B.  the glossary

C.  the title page

D.  the copyright page

24.  In which source would you find synonyms for the word forget?

  1. almanac
  2. thesaurus
  3. periodicals
  4. encyclopedia

Choose the best answer for the following questions.

25.  Which task should be completed immediately before writing the first draft of a research paper?

A.  taking notes

B.  choosing a topic

C.  making an outline

D.  selecting resources

26.  Which task should a person do before beginning to write a research paper?

  1. take notes
  2. choose a topic
  3. make an outline
  4. select resources

Prefixes and suffixes can be added to words to change their meanings. Choose the best answer for the following questions.

27.  Which prefix would you add to the word appear to give it the opposite meaning?

A.  dis

B.  un

C.  re

D.  mis

28.  Which of the following words means “without meaning”?

  1. thoughtful
  2. thoughtless
  3. thoughted
  4. thoughtness

29.  Which of the following words means “to count again”?

A.  uncount

B.  discount

C.  recount

D.  incount

30.  Which prefix would you add to the word leash to give it the opposite meaning?

  1. dis
  2. un
  3. re
  4. mis

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5th Grade Language Arts Checkpoint #4

4th Nine Weeks

Answer Key

1.  C

2.  D

3.  B

4.  D

5.  B

6.  C

7.  B

8.  C

9.  D

10.  B

11.  A

12.  D

13.  B

14.  A

15.  D

16.  A

17.  C

18.  B

19.  C

20. A

21.  C

22. B

23. B

24. B

25. C

26. B

27. A

28. B

29. C

30. B

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