Writing Standards > Writing Narratives with Dialogue, Transitions, and Sensory Details (CCSS.W.5.3) Practice Test

On Saturday morning, Dad and I joined the beach cleanup at Driftwood Cove. The sky was pale and the tide was low, leaving a wrinkled stripe of seaweed along the sand. I slipped on blue gloves and grabbed a trash bag. Add a descriptive sentence here. 'Let's start near the pier,' Dad said, nodding at the posts that stuck up like old teeth. We moved slowly, picking bottle caps from wet sand and tugging a soggy chip bag out of a cluster of kelp. A little crab scuttled out, and I laughed and set a shell back down like a roof. After an hour, my bag was half full and my shoulders were pleasantly tired. 'Break time?' Dad asked, pointing to the cooler.

On Saturday morning, Dad and I joined the beach cleanup at Driftwood Cove. The sky was pale and the tide was low, leaving a wrinkled stripe of seaweed along the sand. I slipped on blue gloves and grabbed a trash bag. Add a descriptive sentence here. 'Let's start near the pier,' Dad said, nodding at the posts that stuck up like old teeth. We moved slowly, picking bottle caps from wet sand and tugging a soggy chip bag out of a cluster of kelp. A little crab scuttled out, and I laughed and set a shell back down like a roof. After an hour, my bag was half full and my shoulders were pleasantly tired. 'Break time?' Dad asked, pointing to the cooler.