NYSESLAT - Grades 5-6 Test Sampler

Which word or phrase tells what the social studies class created?

Which word helps tell the problem that Sehar talks about in her e-mail?

Which phrase helps tell the meaning of we?

"As a class, we suggested ideas and decided on two solutions. First, we increased community awareness of the problem. We made signs to remind people not to litter. Second, we formed a volunteer club. The market owner gave us free garbage cans to place beside the creek. The club members helped by emptying the donated garbage cans after school."

Which phrase helps explain the meaning of donated?

Which pair of phrases from the e-mail tells the two solutions that the class decided on?

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“Immigrants are people who move to new countries to make a new home and start a new life. They take their cultural ideas to new places with them.”

Which word helps tell the meaning of They?

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“German immigrants had other ideas about schools, too. They believed in physical education in schools. Because of their ideas, gyms were also built in American schools.”

Which words show what German immigrants believed in?

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“For example, German immigrants brought their ideas about education to the United States many years ago. People in Germany placed a high value on education. Their ideas affected the American school system. German immigrants started the first American kindergarten in 1855. Kindergarten classes already existed in Germany. Today, kindergarten continues to be an important part of the American school system.”

Which phrase tells when German immigrants brought their ideas about education to the United States?

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“Other examples of new cultural ideas brought to the United States are those from Chinese immigrants. Some ideas they shared long ago were good ways of farming. Their methods of farming were very successful in China. They brought these ideas to the United States and shared them with other people.”

Which word helps explain the meaning of methods?

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“In addition, Chinese ideas about food have also become a big part of American life. For example, Chinese food is popular in many restaurants and homes in the United States.”

Which word helps tell the meaning of In addition?

The passage says, “Whenever people move from place to place, they take their culture with them.”

Which sentence from the passage supports this statement?