Grade 4 • Unit 5 • Week 1 Weekly Assessment Name

1 Grade 4 unit 5 week 1. Weekly Assessment name Read the passage Through the Desert and then answer Numbers 1 through 3. Through the Desert 1 For thousands of years, trade western China. The Silk Road took place between China in the ran hundreds of miles in length. East and Europe and India in the It passed through some of the West. This trade took place along emptiest places on Earth. The the Silk Road. This route was Taklamakan Desert is bleak. the only way to transport goods Its sand dunes stretch as far as by land. The Silk Road went the eye can see. Travelers along over tall mountains. It also went this part of the road would find through huge deserts. very little water.

2 And terrible Macmillan/McGraw-Hill sandstorms could blow up at 2 Crossing the Silk Road from any time. Europe to China was always a long and hard journey. The 3 Fortunately, several oasis most challenging part of the towns could be found along the trip was the large Taklamakan route. These oases were places to Desert. This desert is located in find water and food. CA Progress Monitoring 344 Weekly Assessment Grade 4 344 . unit 5/ week 1. Grade 4 unit 5, week 1. 4 Turpan was one such oasis. It in two large humps on its back. was located in the middle of the Although few in number, the Taklamakan Desert. Turpan was Bactrian camel can still be seen a popular stop for traders.

3 In the in the desert. Wild donkeys and Turpan oasis, farmers grew fat a few kinds of birds and insects green grapes and sweet melons. can also be seen there. Water rushed through the oasis 6 Today, there are faster ways in a system of human-made of travel. Because of this, the streams that flowed from under- Silk Road is no longer a major ground springs. route. Travelers still go there, 5 The desert was inhospitable however. The area's history and for humans. Travelers crossing unusual setting have made it a the desert did, however, see a popular place to visit. The desert few animals that made their is still barren. Visitors to the homes there. The Bactrian oasis towns can still rest in the camel used to be a common quiet tree-filled areas.

4 They can sight in the desert. This kind see the beauty of this unusual of camel can live for a long climate without having to risk time without food and water going into the sands. because of the fat that it stores Macmillan/McGraw-Hill CA Progress Monitoring 345 Weekly Assessment Grade 4 345. unit 5/ week 1. Grade 4 unit 5, week 1. Read these sentences from The passage Through the the passage. Desert was mainly about *U QBTTFE UISPVHI TPNF PG UIF A desert animals. FNQUJFTU QMBDFT PO &BSUI 5IF B an interesting place in 5 BLMBNBLBO %FTFSU JT CMFBL . the world. Based on information in C the western part of China. paragraph 2, the word D desert adventurers. bleak means A cold and rainy.

5 B bare and empty. C warm and small. D bright and colorful. Paragraph 4 is mostly about A an oasis in the desert. B animals in the desert. C ways to cross the desert. D the history of the Silk Road..BDNJMMBO .D(SBX )JMM . CA Progress Monitoring Weekly Assessment Grade 4 . 6 OJU 8 FFL . Grade 4 unit 5, week 1. Read the passage A Giant Star and then answer Numbers 4 through 6. A Giant Star 1 Did you know that the sun is stars can be seen in the dark sky really a star? It is a giant star at overhead. the center of our solar system. 3 Without the sun there would The sun is a large ball made of be no life on Earth as we know it. many kinds of gases. It gives We would lose our human habitat!

6 Light and heat to the planets that There would be no spiders make up our solar system and spinning their silken webs. There spin around it. would be no elephants lumbering 2 The sun rises in the eastern across vast stretches of land. sky each morning. It swallows up 4 All living things need the sun the eerie darkness from the night to survive. Plants use sunlight before. The stars lurk and hide in to make food. While doing this, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill the night sky until the sun comes they give off oxygen. Animals up. The shimmer and sparkle and people eat plants and breathe of sunlight mark the beginning in oxygen. They breathe out of a new day. At the end of the carbon dioxide, require energy day, the sun sets in the western from sunlight, and need water to sky.

7 Then, night returns and the make more food. CA Progress Monitoring 347 Weekly Assessment Grade 4 347. unit 5/ week 1. Grade 4 unit 5, week 1. 5 People, animals, and plants are are cold because the sun does not not the only things that depend rise high in the sky there. on the sun. Earth's climate and 7 Every 365 days, Earth makes temperature depend on the a trip around the sun. For six sun, too. months, the northern half of 6 The temperature of a place on Earth faces the sun. This causes Earth depends on the position spring and summer in that part of the sun. It is cooler in the of the world. For six months, the morning, when the sun is lower northern half of Earth points away in the sky.

8 As the sun rises, it from the sun. This causes fall and becomes hotter. Then it cools winter in that part of the world. down as the sun sets. Places 8 The sun controls many things near the equator are hot because on Earth. It controls the food the sun shines almost directly that we eat and the air that we overhead at noon. Places near breathe. Without the sun, nothing the North Pole and South Pole would be able to stay alive. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill CA Progress Monitoring 348 Weekly Assessment Grade 4 348 . unit 5/ week 1. Grade 4 unit 5, week 1. 4 Read this sentence from 6 What is the main idea of the passage. A Giant Star ? The stars lurk and hide in the A Plants change carbon dioxide night sky until the sun into oxygen.

9 Comes up. B The sun has control over things What word helps you figure out on Earth. what lurk means? C Without the sun there would be A sun no spiders. B sky D Humans survive in hot and cold temperatures. C hide D night 5 Plants make food by A making trips around the sun. B saving oxygen that people breathe. C turning the sun's energy into light and heat. D using carbon dioxide, energy from sunlight, and water. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill CA Progress Monitoring 349 Weekly Assessment Grade 4 349. unit 5/ week 1. Grade 4 unit 5, week 1. Colin wrote this story. It contains errors. Read the story and then answer Numbers 7 through 9. The Busy, Hungry Man (1) The hungry man quickly ate the food at the restaurant.

10 (2) Then he purchased a large drink and put it on his tray cluttered. (3) After he finished eating, he said, to a friend That meal was good. (4) Let's go to the batting range.. (5) He practiced hitting balls the rest of the afternoon. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill CA Progress Monitoring 350 Weekly Assessment Grade 4 350 . unit 5/ week 1. Grade 4 unit 5, week 1. 7 Read this sentence from 9 Read these sentences from the story. the story. The hungry man quickly ate After he finished eating, he said, the food at the restaurant restaurant. to a friend That meal was good. Let's go to the batting range.. Which underlined word in the sentence is an adjective? What is the correct way to punctuate the sentences?