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English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 2 Writing - Topic (Questions)

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When writing, students should be provided with guidance and support. This will help students make their writing get better and better. As the student ages, his or her writing will become more structured and detailed. Also, the student must learn to focus and narrow their topic as well as learn to revise and edit their rough drafts to make them into a final draft. In this quiz, the students will answer questions about staying on a topic while revising and editing their writing.

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1. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: Saturday is my favorite day of the week.
[ ] My mom lets me watch television on Saturday.
[ ] Saturday is hard to spell.
[ ] I get to sleep late on Saturday.
[ ] There is no school on Saturday.
2. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: I live in the best neighborhood.
[ ] Kids can swim in the pool that is just down the street.
[ ] My neighborhood is close to the school.
[ ] School is fun because my teachers are nice.
[ ] There are many sidewalks near my house.
3. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: The best toy would be a robot. It would clean my room.
[ ] Kites would be a good toy because they fly in the air.
[ ] I would never have to clean my room.
[ ] My mom would never yell at me to put my toys away.
[ ] There would never be any dirt in my room.
4. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: I like to use glue when I do crafts.
[ ] It makes glitter stick to the paper.
[ ] There is plenty of glue to use at school.
[ ] It makes fur and buttons stay on a piece of paper.
[ ] Tape is better than glue because it does not make a mess.
5. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: Fish are animals that live in the ocean.
[ ] Fish must swim in the ocean and seas.
[ ] Fish may get eaten by sharks.
[ ] Fish have gills to breathe under the water.
[ ] People eat fish and chips for lunch.
6. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs to be corrected in the following sentence?
The two foots of an elephant stomped on the ground.
[ ] Two should be too.
[ ] Foots should be feet.
[ ] Elephant should be elefant.
[ ] Stomped should be stompt.
7. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs to be corrected in the following sentence?
Monkeys like to clime trees with their long arms.
[ ] Trees should be treese.
[ ] Monkeys should be monkees.
[ ] Clime should be climb.
[ ] Arms should be armes.
8. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs to be corrected in the following sentence?
The policeman wore a bage on his shirt.
[ ] Bage should be badge.
[ ] Shirt should be shert.
[ ] Policeman should be policemann.
[ ] His should be himself.
9. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs to be corrected in the following sentence?
We leaf the store after we bought our food.
[ ] Leaf should be leave.
[ ] Store should be stoor.
[ ] Bought should be bot.
[ ] Food should be fude.
10. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs revising in the following sentence?
My friends and I did our homework by myself.
[ ] Friends should be freends.
[ ] Homework should be homewerk.
[ ] Myself should be ourselves.
[ ] Did should be dide.
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English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 2 Writing - Topic (Answers)
1. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: Saturday is my favorite day of the week.
[ ] My mom lets me watch television on Saturday.
[x] Saturday is hard to spell.
[ ] I get to sleep late on Saturday.
[ ] There is no school on Saturday.
This sentence does not support the topic about Saturday being the author’s favorite day of the week.
2. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: I live in the best neighborhood.
[ ] Kids can swim in the pool that is just down the street.
[ ] My neighborhood is close to the school.
[x] School is fun because my teachers are nice.
[ ] There are many sidewalks near my house.
This sentence does not pertain to the topic.
3. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: The best toy would be a robot. It would clean my room.
[x] Kites would be a good toy because they fly in the air.
[ ] I would never have to clean my room.
[ ] My mom would never yell at me to put my toys away.
[ ] There would never be any dirt in my room.
This sentence is about another toy and not the one mentioned in the topic sentence.
4. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: I like to use glue when I do crafts.
[ ] It makes glitter stick to the paper.
[ ] There is plenty of glue to use at school.
[ ] It makes fur and buttons stay on a piece of paper.
[x] Tape is better than glue because it does not make a mess.
This sentence should not be used for support since it seems the author likes tape more than glue.
5. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: Fish are animals that live in the ocean.
[ ] Fish must swim in the ocean and seas.
[ ] Fish may get eaten by sharks.
[ ] Fish have gills to breathe under the water.
[x] People eat fish and chips for lunch.
Even though the sentence is about fish, it does not pertain to fish being in the ocean.
6. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs to be corrected in the following sentence?
The two foots of an elephant stomped on the ground.
[ ] Two should be too.
[x] Foots should be feet.
[ ] Elephant should be elefant.
[ ] Stomped should be stompt.
The word foots should be feet since this is the correct spelling of the plural form of the word foot.
7. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs to be corrected in the following sentence?
Monkeys like to clime trees with their long arms.
[ ] Trees should be treese.
[ ] Monkeys should be monkees.
[x] Clime should be climb.
[ ] Arms should be armes.
The word climb was misspelled.
8. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs to be corrected in the following sentence?
The policeman wore a bage on his shirt.
[x] Bage should be badge.
[ ] Shirt should be shert.
[ ] Policeman should be policemann.
[ ] His should be himself.
The correct spelling of the word is badge.
9. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs to be corrected in the following sentence?
We leaf the store after we bought our food.
[x] Leaf should be leave.
[ ] Store should be stoor.
[ ] Bought should be bot.
[ ] Food should be fude.
Even though leaf is a word, the correct way of spelling it should be leave.
10. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs revising in the following sentence?
My friends and I did our homework by myself.
[ ] Friends should be freends.
[ ] Homework should be homewerk.
[x] Myself should be ourselves.
[ ] Did should be dide.
The wrong reflexive pronoun was used.