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Test:Common Core: 5th Grade English Language Arts
Image adapted from Edward de Deene, De warachtighe fabvlen der dieren, Brugghe, 1567, plate 26. Aesop's fable of the grasshopper and the ant. Image retrieved from the Library of Congress,
Adapted from Aesop’s The Ants & the Grasshopper (620-560 BCE)
One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants was bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.
"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"
"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."
The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.
"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.
| 1. | How does the image contribute to the story? |
The illustration can help readers picture what is happening in the story with more detail.
The illustration provides more information than the passage gives.
The illustration does not help the reader understand anything about the passage.
The illustration tells the entire story so reading the passage isn’t necessary.
