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Student Name ____________________________________________ Grade 6

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English Reading

Directions: In this section of the test, you will show how well you can understand written English. There are several selections and some questions about each one. For each question, mark the letter of the correct answer on your answer sheet.

From a book called Abuelita’s Paradise by Carmen Santiago Nodar

Marita holds her grandmother’s, her abuelita’s, plaid blanket. Letters on the blanket spell paraíso, paradise. Marita holds the blanket and sits in her abuelita’s rocking chair and remembers the stories that her grandma told her. “I lived on a farm in Puerto Rico,” Abuelita would say. “Up in the mountains, where butterflies fly. Where night creeps over the mountains and down again. Where sunlight sparkles the day, and sugarcane reaches the sky.”

“Tell me more, Abuelita,” Marita would say.

“Morning was still night,” her grandma would say, “when my father whispered, ‘Wake up, niñita. Today we see giants -- giant sugarcanes.’” “After breakfast I would run to get Pedrito and Pablito, our bulls. My father would hitch them to the cart and put on his sombrero. Then out to the fields we’d go.”

“Did you wear a sombrero too, Abuelita?”



“Yes, my father’s old one.”



“Tell me more,” Marita said.

Abuelita whispered, “The dew of the rain forest was on me; trees, vines, wildflowers, and giant ferns were all around me; tiny tree frogs sang, ‘Coquí, coquí’; and waterfalls made rainbows just for me.” “It was so long ago,” Marita’s grandma said, “But Puerto Rico will always be paradise to me.” Go on to the next page.

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Grade 6 - English

READING

Marita sits in the rocking chair, l 1 When what does she do?

did Marita’s abuelita see l 4 Where rainbows?

A She falls asleep.

A at the very top of a mountain

B She remembers stories.

B in the sugarcane fields

C She writes letters.

C over deep rivers

D She reads books with pictures in them.

D at waterfalls in the forest

grandmother told Marita about 5 According to the passage, Abuelita used l 2 Marita’s l what happened when to wake up A Marita was a girl.

A when it was still dark outside.

B the grandmother was a girl.

B after the alarm clock went off.

C the grandmother’s father was a boy.

C after the sun rose.

D the grandmother moved to San Juan.

D when her mother whispered.

grandmother’s father woke her up to l 3 The see the sugarcane A before the sun came out. B at ten in the morning. C at two-thirty in the afternoon. D when the moon first appeared.

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Seahorses 1

Have you ever seen a seahorse? Seahorses don’t really look like fish, but they are fish. Like other fish, they have a skeleton, gills to breathe with, and small fins to help them swim through the water. However, seahorses don’t have scales like other fish. Instead, seahorses are covered on the outside with hard, bony plates.

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Seahorses live in warm, shallow water. They like to live where there is plenty of seaweed or sea grasses. They hold onto the underwater plants with their tails.

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One of the most remarkable things about seahorses is how quickly they can change color. A seahorse can change its color in the blink of an eye.

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Changing color makes them hard to see as they blend in with the plants around them. In this way they hide from larger fish, crabs, or sea turtles that might want to eat them. Changing color also hides the seahorses from the very small animals they like to eat.

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Seahorses are not large. The biggest seahorse in the world only grows to about 18 inches long, and most types of seahorses are much smaller than that.

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The strangest thing about seahorses is how they are born. The mother seahorse places her eggs into a pouch, or pocket, on the stomach of the father seahorse. After a few weeks, the male seahorse pushes the seahorse babies out of his pouch. When it is born, every seahorse looks like its parents, except that it is so small you can barely see it.

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l 6 What is the main topic of the passage?

Grade 6 - English

l 9 Seahorses change color to

A sea water

A keep their babies warm.

B seahorses

B look bigger to other animals.

C sea turtles

C hide from other animals.

D baby seahorses

D swim quickly through water.

are seahorses different from most l 7 How fish? A Seahorses don’t have a skeleton. B Seahorses don’t have gills. C Seahorses don’t have fins. D Seahorses don’t have scales. do the words in the blink l 8 Inof anlineeye9, what mean?

to the selection, what is the l 10 According strangest thing about seahorses? A Seahorse fathers carry the babies until they are born. B Seahorse babies look like their parents. C Seahorses live in seaweed or sea grass. D Father seahorses are smaller than mother seahorses.

A helpfully B quickly C carefully D quietly

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Answer Key 6th Grade- English

1.

E63.1, The student identifies details in a selection.

A

Incorrect. The passage does NOT state that Marita falls asleep in the chair.

B

Correct. The passage states that Marita holds her grandmother’s blanket and remembers stories while sitting in the chair.

C

Incorrect. The passage does NOT state that Marita writes letters while sitting in the rocking chair.

D

Incorrect. The passage does NOT state that Marita reads a book while sitting in the rocking chair.

2.

E63.1, The student identifies details in a selection.

A

Incorrect. The stories the grandmother tells are NOT about Marita as a girl.

B

Correct. The stories the grandmother tells are about when she was a niñita, or little girl.

C

Incorrect. The stories the grandmother tells are NOT about the granmother’s father as a boy.

D

Incorrect. The story mentions that the grandmother lived in Puerto Rico but it does NOT talk about when she moved to San Juan.

3.

E63.6, The student identifies a sequence of events.

A

Correct. The passage mentions that “morning was still night”. This means that the sun had not come out yet.

B

Incorrect. The passage does NOT say that it was ten o’clock in the morning when the father woke Marita’s grandmother.

C

Incorrect. The passage does NOT say that the father woke Marita’s grandmother at two-thirty in the afternoon.

D

Incorrect. The passage does NOT say that the father woke Marita’s grandmother when the moon first appeared.

4.

E63.1, The student identifies details in a selection.

A

Incorrect. The passage does NOT say that Marita’s grandmother saw rainbows at the top of the mountains.

B

Incorrect. The passage does NOT say that Marita’s grandmother saw rainbows in the sugarcane fields.

C

Incorrect. The passage does NOT say that Marita’s grandmother saw rainbows over deep rivers.

D

Correct. The passage says that waterfalls made rainbows for Abuelita.

5.

E63.5, The student draws conclusions.

A

Correct. The passage states that “morning was still night”. This means it was dark outside.

B

Incorrect. The passage does NOT mention alarm clocks.

C

Incorrect. The passage does NOT say that the sun rose before she woke up.

D

Incorrect. The passage states that the FATHER whispered, NOT the mother.

6.

E63.3, The student identifies the main idea.

A

Incorrect. The passage does NOT mention sea water.

B

Correct. The passage is mainly about seahorses.

C

Incorrect. The passage mentions sea turtles, but this is NOT the main idea.

D

Incorrect. The passage mentions baby seahorses, but this is NOT the main idea.

7.

E63.1, The student identifies details in a selection.

A

Incorrect. The passage states that seahorses DO have a skeleton.

B

Incorrect. The passage states that seahorses DO have gills.

C

Incorrect. The passage states that seahorses DO have fins.

D

Correct. The passage states the seahorses are different from fish in that they do NOT have scales.

8.

E63.5, The student draws conclusions.

A

Incorrect. In the passage, “in the blink of an eye” does NOT mean “helpfully”.

B

Correct. In the passage, “in the blink of an eye” DOES mean “quickly”.

C

Incorrect. In the passage, “in the blink of an eye” does NOT mean “carefully”.

D

Incorrect. In the passage, “in the blink of an eye” does NOT mean “quietly”.

9.

E63.1, The student identifies details in a selection.

A

Incorrect. The passage does NOT state that seahorses change color to “keep their babies warm”.

B

Incorrect. The passage does NOT state that seahorses change color to “look bigger to other animals”.

C

Correct. The passage DOES state that seahorses change color to “hide from other animals”.

D

Incorrect. The passage does NOT state that they change color in order to swim quickly.

10.

E63.1, The student identifies details in a selection.

A

Correct. The passage states that it is strange that father seahorses carry the babies.

B

Incorrect. The passage does NOT state that it is strange that babies look like their parents.

C

Incorrect. The passage does NOT state that it is strange that seahorses live in seaweed.

D

Incorrect. The passage does NOT state that it is strange that father seahorses are smaller than mothers.