Open Up - Grade 3 - ELA - Module 2 - Mid Unit 1 Assessment - Formative Library | Library

This assessment has two parts. In Part I, you will read a new frog poem and answer questions to show your understanding. In Part II, you will read a new pourquoi tale and answer questions about the story’s plot and purpose. Be sure to read both texts carefully, and then answer the questions that follow.

Part I: Read the poem “The Spring Peepers” and answer the questions below.

The Spring Peepers
Peep-peep 
We steal your sleep.
In score 
Of choruses 
We cheep.
Beneath our chin’s 
A thin balloon 
To help our song
From March till June 
Each spring 
We sing
To bring 
A mate
And make you stay 
Awake too late.

Source: 
“The Spring Peepers” from Lizards, Frogs and Polliwogs by Douglas Florian. Copyright © 2001 by Douglas Florian. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Part A: In this poem, what does “We steal your sleep” mean? (RL.3.4, L.3.4a)

The frogs sleep all night.

Burglars come in at night.

The frogs croak so loudly, no one can sleep.

The frogs sing only at night.

RL.3.4

L.3.4.a

Part B: Which lines from the poem support your answer in Part A? (RL.3.1)

“And make you stay / Awake too late.”

“Beneath our chin’s / A thin balloon”

“To help our song / From March till June”

“We sing / To bring”

RL.3.1

List three pairs of rhyming words in this poem. (RL.3.5)

RL.3.5

According to the poem, how do the spring peepers use the “thin balloon” beneath their chins? (RL3.1, RL.3.4)

to help them sleep

to eat

to sing

to hold water when they swim

RL.3.4

RL.3.1

Choose the correct dictionary definition of the word score as it is used in this poem. (RL.3.4, L.3.4d)

/skor/: to give a grade to

/skor/: the printed or written form of a musical piece

/skor/: the record of the total points earned in a game or tes

/skor/: the making of a goal, run, or basket in sport

/skor/: a group of 20

RL.3.4

L.3.4.d

Part II: Read the pourquoi tale and answer the questions below.

Why Do Frogs Hop?
One hot day before frogs could hop, Frog took a walk to sit in the shade of a tree next to the pond. He was hoping to catch a delicious dragonfly for his lunch, so he sat very still. He was so still that Snake nearly didn’t see him. He was about to slither by when he heard Frog’s growling stomach. Snake thought Frog looked tasty. This thought made Snake’s stomach rumble loudly! Frog heard the sound and quickly turned around.

“I’m only very small. I won’t fill you up, Snake,” Frog croaked. Snake thought about this, and his stomach growled again. Frog was very small, but Snake was very hungry.

Clever Frog knew that Snake liked to race because he could swim very fast. “Race me across the pond,” Frog suggested. “You can eat me if you win. If I win, you let me go.”

Snake immediately agreed. He knew that it would take Frog much longer to swim across or walk around because he was so small. “This is too easy,” he thought.

“Three, two, one, go.” Frog knew he couldn’t swim as fast as Snake and it would take even longer to walk around the pond, but he needed to win. He could see some large leaves floating on the pond. If he could get from one leaf to the next, he might just make it across the pond faster than Snake. The only way was to hop. He had never hopped before, but perhaps his long back legs would help him make a giant leap. Hop! He made it to the first leaf! Hop, hop, hop, Frog jumped from one leaf to the next. He landed on the other side of the pond just a second before Snake slithered out of the water.

Snake was angry to have been beaten by a small frog. Frog hopped joyfully back across the leaves to return to the other side of the pond.

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Part A: What is the problem in the story? Underline the correct response. (RL.3.2)

Frog is hungry and wants to catch a dragonfly.

Frog needs to win a race against Snake.

It is a very hot day, so Frog needs shade from a tree.

Snake is hungry and needs to eat.

RL.3.2

Part B: What details from the text best support your answer to Part A? Underline the correct response. (RL.3.1, RL.3.2)

“Snake thought Frog looked tasty. This thought made Snake’s stomach rumble loudly!”

“One hot day before frogs could hop, Frog took a walk to sit in the shade of a tree next to the pond.”

“He was hoping to catch a delicious dragonfly for his lunch, so he sat very still.”

“Race me across the pond,” Frog suggested. “You can eat me if you win. If I win, you let me go.”

RL.3.2

How does the main character respond to the problem? Use details from the text to explain what he thought, did, said, or felt. (RL.3.2; RL.3.1)

RL.3.1

RL.3.2

How is the problem in the story solved/resolved? Underline the correct response. (RL.3.2)

Frog wins the race by swimming quicker than Snake.

Frog wins the race by hopping across the leaves on the pond.

Snake wins the race and eats Frog.

Frog wins the race by walking quickly around the pond.

RL.3.2

10.

What is the purpose of this narrative? Use details from the text to explain your answer. (RL.3.2, RL.3.1)

RL.3.1

RL.3.2

11.

The text says, “Snake was angry to have been beaten by a small frog. Frog hopped joyfully back across the leaves to return to the other side of the pond.”

Part A: What does return mean? Re- means again or back. Underline the correct response. (L.3.4b)

to go back to the same place again

to do the same thing again

to move backward from one place to another

to turn in a circle

L.3.4.b

12.

Part B: If you know that joy means happiness, what do you think joyfully might mean? (L.3.4c)

L.3.4.c

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