The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) is a standardized test that includes a variety of new technology-enhanced questions.
Some of them are Multiple choice-single correct responses, Multiple choice-multiple correct responses, Matching Tables, Drag and Drop, Hot text, Table Fill in, Graphing, Equation/numeric, Extended constructed response, Short answer, and many more.
This page contains several sample questions along with practice test links for Grade 2 ELA that gives you an idea of questions that your students are likely to see on the test. After each sample question, an answer explanation follows. The explanation includes essential aspects of the task that you may need to consider for the skills, processes, and information your students need to know.
Domain: Grade 2 >> Reading Standards for Literature
Sample Question: What is the main meaning behind the folktale?
- There are all kinds of princesses.
- Princesses always marry princes.
- Birds are magical.
- Good wins over evil.
Answer Explanation: The main idea is that good wins over evil. The fourth answer is the only correct one that is the main idea of the folktale. The first answer is not given. The second answer is not supported, and neither is the third.
Standards: RL.2.2
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Domain: Grade 2 >> Reading Standards for Informational Text
Sample Question: Using the glossary to help you, why would congestion be a problem for those in the suburbs?
- Congestion would be a problem because it might make them late for their jobs.
- Congestion would not be a problem because it would help them get to work faster.
- Congestion would be a problem because they could not stop when they wanted to.
- Congestion would make it easier for them to listen to the radio.
Answer Explanation: The first answer is correct. In the glossary it states that congestion is something blocked or slowed. If the traffic was blocked or slowed down, people could be late for their jobs. The other answers are not found and are not correct.
Standards: RI.2.5
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Domain: Grade 2 >> Writing Standards
Sample Question: Your partner in the class project wants to draw pictures to help you with your presentation on bananas. Which of the following sources would best help your partner and you?
- Pictures of healthy snacks from the cafeteria
- Pictures of jungles and forests with animals
- Pictures of bananas growing, being harvested, and being eaten
- Pictures of you and your partner eating bananas
Answer Explanation: The BEST answer would be the third sentence. Pictures of bananas growing, being harvested, and being eaten. The first, second and fourth sentences would not be the BEST answers to help in a presentation about bananas.
Standards: W.2.8
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Domain: Grade 2 >> Language Standards
Sample Question: Some nouns do not change at all from singular (one) to plural (more than one). Read the sentences and mark the ones that have a noun that does not change.
- The cows were eating in the field.
- We saw many deer on the ranch.
- The buffalo ran when the cars came by.
- How many sheep do you see?
Answer Explanation: The first sentence is not correct, as the noun cow was changed to cows to be plural. The second, third and fourth sentences are correct, as the nouns deer, buffalo and sheep do not change from singular to plural.
Standards: L.2.1.B
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