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Benchmark Assessment 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Benchmark Assessment 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Benchmark Assessment 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Benchmark Assessment 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Summative Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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Part 1: Reading Comprehension
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Fox was trotting down the dusty country road and feeling very hungry.
He couldn’t stop thinking about all the foods he might find along the way.
“Maybe I’ll find an orchard full of crisp red apples,” he said to himself,
“or maybe a vegetable garden filled with crunchy green beans.”
He paused, looked around, and shook his head with disappointment.
On both sides of the road were meadows of wildflowers. “Well, there are
lots of flowers, but I do not see a single thing to eat,” he said sadly.
Fox continued down the road, getting hungrier with every step. Then, to
his great relief, he saw something different. It was a house and a grape arbor.
“That is a truly beautiful sight!” Fox exclaimed as he hurried to the grape
arbor and stood beneath it. The arbor was made of slats of wood held up by
sturdy poles. Twisting vines grew around and up the poles and all along the
wood slats. Hanging from the vines were large bunches of deep purple grapes
that looked juicy and ripe.
“Now all I have to do is find a way to reach those grapes,” Fox thought,
“and that will be easy for someone like me.”
Fox stood on his hind legs and stretched his front paws up farther and
farther until he couldn’t reach any higher. But he was still far below the
delicious-looking grapes.
Fox stared up at the lovely grapes and murmured to himself, “I’m
absolutely convinced that I can reach them by jumping. After all, I’m a truly
excellent jumper.”
Fox got a good running start, and then he jumped as high as he could,
reaching out to grab a bunch of grapes. Thud! He landed hard on the ground,
and his paws were still empty. He hadn’t even come close to getting the grapes!
Grumbling to himself, Fox examined the arbor until he came up with
another possible solution. “Ordinary red foxes can’t climb poles,” he thought,
“but I bet I can. I’ll just climb one of the poles and reach the grapes.”
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The Fox and the Grapes
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Fox stood next to one of the poles and stretched up against it, trying to
grip it with his front legs. But he found his legs weren’t made for that kind of
climbing, and he slipped right off the pole again and again.
“Hrrrumf !” Fox snorted. “I’ve tried everything—reaching, jumping, and
climbing, but nothing has worked.”
Fox tilted back his head and stared at the grapes again. Then he walked to
the far side of the arbor and studied them from that angle.
“Those grapes don’t look so great after all,” he said aloud. “They look like
they might be sour. As a matter of fact, I’m sure they’re sour!”
Fox left the arbor and began to trot along the road again. As he walked, he
held his bushy tail high and muttered to himself, “Sour grapes, sour grapes—I
didn’t want those sour grapes anyway.”
The moral of the story is: When you can’t have something, it’s easy to say
it’s not worth having.
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1. The story of Fox and the grapes is
told by
3. What does the word
grumbling mean?
A. Fox himself.
A. complaining
B. another character in the story.
B. thinking
C. a narrator outside the story.
C. working
D. Fox’s closest friend.
D. climbing
2. At the beginning of the story, how
does Fox describe the grapes?
4. Why is Fox unable to get
any grapes?
A. He is too lazy.
B. crisp and crunchy
B. The grapes are too high.
C. too far away
C. He is too big.
D. beautiful
D. The grapes are not worth it.
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A. sweet
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5. What does the illustration help readers understand about the story?
A. that the grapes really were sour
B. what an arbor looks like
C. what the fox did to try to get the grapes
D. that the fox was weak from hunger
6. Read this sentence from the story.
The moral of the story is: When you can’t have something, it’s easy to
say it’s not worth having.
What does Fox do in the story that shows this moral? Explain using details
from the story.
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Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Olivia’s brother, Antonio, wanted to become a filmmaker someday.
Olivia’s own dream was much simpler. She wanted to throw her brother’s
video camera out the window. Not someday, but right this minute.
She wasn’t the only one who was frustrated with Antonio and his video
camera. “Can you please put that camera down while we’re eating?” Mom asked
at dinner. “The world doesn’t need to see me shoving food into my mouth.”
“Ah, that’s where you’re wrong!” said Antonio. “This dinner scene will be
hilarious on video!”
“Mom!” Olivia said. “Are you really going to let him keep this up? He films
me flossing my teeth!”
“Her face is very expressive when she’s flossing,” Antonio said.
Mom smiled and shrugged.
“Dad?” Olivia asked.
“Hey, your brother thinks you’re a movie star in the making,” Dad said.
“Why fight it?”
“Easy for you to say. You’ve never been caught flossing on film,” Olivia said.
“It’s true, and I’m very hurt about it,” Dad said. “Antonio never films me
at all.”
Olivia huffed. “Um, excuse me. This is not funny. Hasn’t anyone heard
of privacy?”
“Haven’t you ever heard of creative freedom?” Antonio asked.
Olivia made a gagging motion.
“OK, that’s enough, you guys,” Mom said.
Olivia glared at Antonio through the rest of dinner. “It’s not fair,” she
thought. “How would he like having a camera on him 24/7?” Then Olivia
had an idea.
That night, after everyone was asleep, Olivia crept into Antonio’s room.
The video camera sat on his desk. Since she’d seen Antonio use it a million
times, Olivia knew just what to do. She turned the camera on and aimed it
at her snoozing brother.
As usual, Antonio was snoring like a two-ton bear. The lampshade next
to his bed shook each time he exhaled. Olivia giggled as she filmed him.
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The Filmmaker
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“Gee, Antonio, your face is so expressive when you snore!” she said under
her breath. “It’s funny, though,” she thought. “Looking through the video
camera did make stuff seem more interesting, even sort of lovable.” Olivia
almost saw why Antonio loved filming so much.
The next day after school, Antonio burst into Olivia’s room.
“I can’t believe you did that!” he said. “I showed my video to the class,
and there I was, snoring like a … like a two-ton bear!”
“Now you know how I feel, bro,” said Olivia.
“I don’t care about that,” Antonio said. “I care that you made the funniest
part of the whole video. Everybody cracked up. They thought I was a genius.
Then I had to admit my little sister did it.”
“I learned from the master,” Olivia said. “Hey, can I borrow your camera
tonight?”
“Uh-uh,” said Antonio. “No more movie stardom for me, thank you very
much.”
Just then, Dad walked past Olivia’s room. He was absentmindedly
whistling to himself and scratching his head.
Olivia and Antonio looked at each other and laughed. “Now, there’s a star
waiting to be discovered!” Olivia said. Antonio grabbed the camera.
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