Grade 3 ELA | Cumulative Review Teacher Answers

Grade 3 ELA: Chapters 2–7 Cumulative Review Answers

Keep separate until the learner finishes. Accept supported equivalent responses. Questions 1–15 can be checked individually; assess question 16 for organization, relevant details, conclusion and conventions. This sample does not establish full-year mastery.

1. 1. The class used records to compare two ways of caring for seedlings.
2. 2. Possible: the class measured seedlings each week; recorded water and light; compared the records before drawing a conclusion.
3. 3. They noticed one group grew taller during the observation period and planned to repeat the test.
4. 4. The weekly plant measurements and the recorded water and light are evidence.
5. 5. No. The passage describes one observation period and proposes another test.
6. 6. The seedlings had drooping leaves on a sunny shelf. Too much sun is a possible inference, not a stated fact.
7. 7. She moved the tray to a shaded place and told the teacher.
8. 8. Possible: observant or responsible; she noticed the wilting and acted.
9. 9. Possible: notice a problem and seek help; Mara moved the tray and informed the teacher.
10. 10. -ful; full of or having the quality of.
11. 11. Mara is the noun; carried is the verb.
12. 12. The class measures plants on Friday.
13. 13. Possible: The soil was dry, so the class watered the seedlings.
14. 14. Personification; the wind is given the human action of whispering.
15. 15. Creaked.
16. 16. Answers vary. Check topic sentence, two relevant details, conclusion, complete sentences and conventions.