Name
Listening Comprehension
Directions: Listen to the selection. Then answer each question.
My Skin Is Too Tight!
1 Imagine you are a snake. You look for food.
You find food, and you eat. Next, you grow. You
eat and you grow. As you grow, your skin starts
feeling a little snug. You need to get out of it. What
do you do? You slide out of your skin!
2 This does not mean a snake ends up with no skin.
A snake only loses its outside layer of skin. There
is new skin below.
3 Most snakes lose their skin about once a month.
The skin by its nose starts coming off. Then, it
starts to slide off the rest of its body. Finally, the
skin slides off the tail. Snakes rub up against rocks
or trees to help them get out of their skins.
4 One day, you may see snake skin in the grass.
You will know that a snake got too big for its skin.
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1 What is the main idea of the selection?
A snake eats a lot in order to grow.
A snake will lose its skin as it grows.
A snake’s skin can fall off when it eats.
2 Paragraph 3 is mostly about —
places snakes can live
the body parts of a snake
how snakes lose their skin
3 What happens to a snake first?
The snake’s skin feels tight.
The skin peels off the snake’s nose.
The snake rubs against rocks or trees.
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4 What happens to a snake last?
The skin starts to slide off the snake’s body.
The old skin comes off the snake’s tail.
The snake looks for food and eats.
5 Read the following sentence:
Your skin starts feeling a little snug.
The author most likely wrote this sentence to —
help the reader understand how snakes feel
compare the skin of a snake to a person’s skin
make readers think about how their own skin grows
6 The author wrote this selection most likely to —
persuade the reader to get a snake
entertain the reader with a snake story
tell the reader about how a snake loses its skin
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Unit 2 Test 17
Directions: Listen to the selection. Then answer each question.
A New Shell
Characters: josey, trista
1 JOSEY: Look! There are little crabs on the beach.
2 TRISTA: I think this one is looking for a new shell.
3 JOSEY: It is coming out of its old shell! It looks
silly with no shell.
4 TRISTA: It is all legs and a big belly.
5 JOSEY: It ran into a new shell! I hope the crab
likes its new shell.
6 TRISTA: I made up a poem about the crab.
You have a soft belly.
It is kind of like jelly.
Your shell keeps you safe.
But you ran out of space.
5 You need something new.
Which shell is for you?
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7 (Both girls laugh. They start digging in the sand.)
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7 Which words in the poem rhyme?
Belly and jelly
Jelly and safe
Shell and space
8 Which words in the poem rhyme?
Keep and safe
Something and shell
New and you
9 Read the following line from the play:
josey: I hope the crab likes its new shell.
This line is an example of —
action
setting
dialogue
10 Read this line from the play:
josey: Look! There are little crabs on the beach.
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This line is important to the play because it —
tells the setting
shows the problem
shows the characters
Unit 2 Test 19
High-Frequency Words
Directions: Choose the word that best completes each sentence.
11 Can you over today?
come
little
saw
12 I will to school.
take
walk
was
13 They will about a plan.
use
think
this
14 The train by at ten.
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goes
make
15 We can our bikes.
five
part
ride
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Phonics
Directions: Listen to each question and choose the correct answer.
16 brag
drip
flow
17 rack
taps
wax
18 cart
harm
tick
19 hat
wear
kites
20 fist
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hint
lift
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21 blooms
grow
yellow
22 sand
coin
shape
23 looks
looked
looking
24 barn
face
trap
25 draw
pair
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Conventions
Directions: Listen to each question and choose the best answer.
26 Jake run to the store.
Jake rans to the store.
Jake runs to the store.
27 It’s time to go!
It’s time to go.
It’s time to go?
28 Which one is mine!
Which one is mine.
Which one is mine?
29 She is my best friend!
She is my best friend.
She is my best friend?
30 You can go to the park.
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Change You can go to Go (Go to the park.)
Add today after park (You can go to the park today.)
Change the period to a question mark (You can go to
the park?)
Unit 2 Test 23
Writing
The selection “My Skin Is Too Tight!” tells facts about
snakes. What animal do you know facts about? Choose an
animal you can write two facts about. On a separate sheet
of paper, draw the animal and write two facts about it.
Be sure to —
• think of an animal you can write about
• brainstorm facts about that animal
• put your writing in an order that makes sense
• use details in your writing
• think carefully about the words you choose
• begin sentences with capital letters
• end sentences with end marks
• check your spelling
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