CAT Level 1: Grade 2 READING Vocabulary WORD SKILLS Listen to the sentence read aloud to you. Then fill in the space by the picture that shows something the sentence is about. 1 2 Black out the letter that begins the word Black out the letter that ends the word read aloud. read aloud. 1 b d p v 4 b j p v 2 p t d g 5 p t s g 3 n r a u 6 e s h a Black out the letter that is the same letter as the first letter on the line. 1 W j k w f 4 G G J Q R 2 s f v g s 5 k b k r f 3 a A B S R 6 D o p b d If two words in an item are the same word, black out the letter S. If they are different words, black out the letter D. 1 mail male S D 2 KEYBOARD keyboard S D 3 brush brach S D 4 pencil PENCIL S D 5 lake like S D Page 2 Copyright © 2018 by Academic Excellence, Inc. All rights reserved.
Fill in the space under the word that tells what the picture is. floor door store more 1 train stain paint plane 2 hand band land hunt 3 pat cat cap cut 4 WORDS IN CONTEXT Fill in the space under the word that you hear. cling clink lean clean 1 dog log frog clog 2 make take snake lake 3 main lane cane rain 4 tip truck trick trip 5 Page 3 Copyright © 2018 by Academic Excellence, Inc. All rights reserved.
For each item, choose the word with the best meaning for the word in darker type. Fill in the space next to the answer you choose. share food damp towel chat with a friend give soft talk eat dirty play cook wet meet buy big eat steep hill big grin notice the dog green goat walk low smile clean high rock feed far tooth see thick slice feeling glad cozy room good sick big pretty sad little wide tired cold small happy messy Page 4 Copyright © 2018 by Academic Excellence, Inc. All rights reserved.
READING Comprehension Read each of the stories and do the items that follow. Fill in the space next to the answer you choose for each item. A little girl named Katie loves to jump rope. She has three ropes. She has a red, a green, and a yellow rope. Katie played with the red rope the most. Katie loved to Katie was sing songs a cat jump over rocks a little girl do jumping jacks a woman jump rope a grandmother Which rope did Katie like most? How many ropes did Katie have? the long one one green rope two red rope three yellow rope four Page 5 Copyright © 2018 by Academic Excellence, Inc. All rights reserved.
Christmas was John’s favorite holiday. He would travel every year to his grandparents’ home three hours away. He liked to eat grandma’s cookies and play games with grandpa. John’s favorite part of Christmas was decorating the Christmas tree. John’s favorite holiday was How far would John travel? 4th of July three days Easter three hours Thanksgiving one hour Christmas three minutes John liked playing John would travel to visit his piano brother games with grandpa friends cards parents detective grandparents How did John travel to his Which of these is the best title for the grandparents? story? he walked “Christmas” by bike “Cookies” by car “Grandpa” by horse “Travel” Page 6 Copyright © 2018 by Academic Excellence, Inc. All rights reserved.