Grade 2 ELA Practice Test: Reading Comprehension, Nouns and Verbs
- Reading Comprehension, Nouns and Verbs
- 10 questions
- 15 minutes
Questions 1-4 are about a short story, and questions 5-10 practice nouns, verbs, plurals and past tense. Tip: when a question names a paragraph, read that paragraph again.
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Question 1
Read the story and answer questions 1-4.
Passage A: Rosa's Beans
(1) Rosa planted three bean seeds in a small pot. She put the pot by the kitchen window, where the sun came in.
(2) Every morning, Rosa gave the seeds a little water. For a whole week, nothing came up. Rosa felt sad and wanted to give up.
(3) Then one morning, she saw a tiny green sprout poking out of the dirt. Rosa ran to get her grandpa.
(4) "Look, it grew!" she shouted. Grandpa smiled. "You kept caring for it, even when you could not see anything happen," he said.
Where did Rosa put the pot?
Correct answer: A
Paragraph 1 says she put the pot by the kitchen window, where the sun came in.
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Question 2
Passage A (see above):
Why did Rosa feel sad in paragraph 2?
Correct answer: B
Paragraph 2 says that for a whole week nothing came up, so Rosa felt sad and wanted to give up.
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Question 3
Passage A (see above):
In paragraph 3, what does the word sprout mean?
Correct answer: D
The sprout is tiny, green and poking out of the dirt where the seeds were planted, so it is a new little plant.
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Question 4
Passage A (see above):
What lesson does the story teach?
Correct answer: C
Rosa kept watering the seeds even when nothing happened, and in the end the bean grew. Grandpa praises her for caring for it all along.
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Question 5
Which word is a noun?
Correct answer: B
A noun names a person, place, animal or thing. Kitten names an animal. Eat is a verb, happy describes, and slowly tells how.
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Question 6
The frog jumps into the water.
Which word is the verb?
Correct answer: D
A verb is an action word. Jumps tells what the frog does. Frog and water are nouns.
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Question 7
Which word finishes the sentence?
One child is reading. Three ____ are playing.
Correct answer: C
Child does not add -s to show more than one. The word for more than one child is children.
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Question 8
Which word finishes the sentence?
Yesterday, we ____ to the zoo.
Correct answer: A
Yesterday tells us it already happened, so we need the past tense. The past tense of go is went, not goed.
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Question 9
Which word finishes the sentence?
We saw a ____ of fish swimming together.
Correct answer: B
A group of fish is called a school. A herd is a group of cows, a flock is a group of birds or sheep, and a pack is a group of wolves.
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Question 10
Which word finishes the sentence?
My sister ____ the piano every day.
Correct answer: D
When one person does the action now, the verb gets an -s: my sister plays. "My sister play" and "My sister playing" are not correct.
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