PARCC - English Language Arts / Literacy - Grade 4 - Practice Test

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consider

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Lily, Jasper, and Enrique make comments about the drawings as the students come close enough to see them.

Priya smiles when her teacher and classmates show an interest in the drawings by describing them to one another.

Priya, Enrique, and Farah create drawings that have different colors and shapes.

Jasper studies the drawings and decides they look like tropical fish swimming in a coral reef.

Working together is the best way to achieve success.

Using imagination often makes ordinary situations exciting.

Sharing family traditions can bring comfort.

Making quick decisions can sometimes bring the best results.

paragraph 22

paragraph 11

paragraph 19

paragraph 3

She believes imagination improves art.

She wishes she could spend time with her friends in India.

She realizes many of her classmates have artistic talent.

She misses the family traditions in India.

"While she and her classmates filed through the halls and out into the yard, Priya thought about how she and her mother used to draw chalk patterns on the long driveway leading up to their old apartment building." (paragraph 4)

"Then he drew circles inside circles, and surrounded them with smallndiamonds. Priya kept drawing too, in between and around Enrique's designs." (paragraph 11)

"Priya, Enrique and Farah stood up and looked at what they had done. The pavement was covered in bright colors and shapes: triangles, circles, squares and diamonds, all mixed together." (paragraph 18)

"At her old school, she spent recess climbing the monkey bars and sharing secrets with her friends." (paragraph 1)

a symbol of the speaker's imagination

secret talent to use when the time is right

a special treasure hidden from cruel classmates

a scary experience in the speaker's nightmares

lines 39-40

lines 10-11

lines 35-36

lines 28-29

Some challenges are much more difficult than others.

Dreams can be helpful when solving problems.

Being alone is the scariest place to be.

Confidence is the best weapon against fear.

lines 10-11

lines 35-36

lines 1-2

lines 19-20

rhythm

dialogue

setting

description

"Now she sat in the corner of the field and watched the other kids play without her." (paragraph 1)

"'It looks like a universe, with lots of planets and stars,' said Lily." (paragraph 19)

"The pavement was covered in bright colors and shapes: triangles, circles, squares and diamonds, all mixed together." (paragraph 18)

"The patterns were called rangoli, and they looked like stars and roses." (paragraph 4)

"The latter, seeing at a glance how matters stood, extended his long trunk, and reached the helmet quite easily. 11 (paragraph 11)

"'Heyday, sirs! 1 said His Majesty, going up to them, 'let me know the cause of your quarrel. 111 (paragraph 5)

"Upon hearing this, off they started. 11 (paragraph 10)

"'And you,1 said the Lion, turning to the Crocodile, 'although unable to reach the helmet, were able to dive for it and save it. 111 (paragraph 13)

discussing

questioning

confessing

agreeing

He causes conflict by proposing a silly contest.

He shows interest in helping them solve their problem.

He disappoints them by refusing to answer.

He addresses them as if they are less important than he is.