Quiz: Comprehension Questions for CCSS or AR

Many education programs ask for comprehension questions for a book or a text. The suggested questions below could be used:

• The Common Core State Standards emphasizes non-fiction and asks students to build content knowledge and draw knowledge from a text, especially to cite specific textual evidence. Use the following questions to explore comprehension.
• a Teacher-Made Accelerated Reader quiz

An alternate quiz can be found at QuizWik, which “Serves the school community with freely shared teacher-made book quizzes for AR, RC and IDQuiz.”

Reading Level for WISDOM, THE MIDWAY ALBATROSS: 840L or 3-5 grade reading level; ATOS 4.0, 0.5 pts

You can add your own Reading Practice Quizzes to Accelerated Reader. These quizzes are called Teacher-Made Quizzes. You can add up to 500 Teacher-Made Quizzes for each school (quiz numbers 900-1399 are reserved per school for these quizzes). Adding Teacher-Made Quizzes is a two-part process: first, you must add basic information about the quiz; then, you add the questions and answers. Each time the quiz is taken by a student, the questions will be presented in a random order. Read more how-tos here.

Suggested Questions:
(Correct answers marked by *)

1. Where does this story take place?
   • Midway Atoll, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
   • * Midway Atoll, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
   • In Alaska.
   • In Japan.
2. What is Gooney’s favorite food?
   • Pizza
   • *Squid
   • Big Fish
   • Algae
3. Which event happened first?
   • Gooney was banded by Chandler Robbins.
   • *Gooney survived a tsunami from a Kamchatka, Russia earthquake.
   • Gooney was given the name, Wisdom.
   • Gooney got a red leg band, number Z333.
4. Why did scientists give Gooney the name of Wisdom?
   • Because she liked to eat squid.
   • Because she lived on Midway Atoll.
   • *Because she had survived in the wild for over 50 years.
   • Because she laid an egg.
5. Which sentence is true?
   • *For over 60 years, Wisdom has survived many natural and man-made disasters.
   • Wisdom is a parakeet.
   • Wisdom dies when the tsunami from the Japanese earthquake destroyed her nest.
   • Wisdom has hatched over 100 chicks.

05. March 2012 by Darcy Pattison
Categories: book | Tags: Accelerated reader, albatross, AR, common core, darcy pattison, kitty harvill, quiz, test, wisdom | 1 comment