Pages 141-143
Pages 144-145
Pages 146-147
General Questions
PSSA Questions
100
Name the genre of "The School News".
What is a play?
100
Identify where Freddy the Frog was found.
What is in his own tank?
100
Identify where most of the passage takes place.
What is at a television station?
100
Tell how all reporters are the SAME.
What is they all tell the news?
100
A comparison using like or as is called a _____.
What is a simile?
200
Tell what is unusual about today's lunch.
What is there are two choices?
200
Explain what the term camouflage means.
Camouflage helps animals blend in with the area around them.
200
Tell me what Mr. Moreno reminds the students to do.
What is read, read, read?
200
Tell me why the science reporter got the Great Thinker Award.
What is because he learned more about frogs by doing research?
200
A comparison that does not use like or as is called a ____.
What is a metaphor?
300
Tell me what "raining cats and dogs" means.
What is that it is raining very hard?
300
Tell how Freddy the Frog catches bugs.
What is with his long, sticky tongue?
300
Tell what you must do to sign up for the soccer team.
What is see Coach Keller in his office at the end of the day?
300
Using the words on page 140, fill in the blank. I know you're nervous, but you will ____ the roller coaster ride.
What is survive?
300
Spongebob Squarepants is an example of what kind of figurative language.
What is alliteration?
400
Identify the school mascot.
What is Freddy the Frog?
400
Tell me the purpose of Freddy's webbed feet.
What is they help Freddy swim fast?
400
Describe how students most likely feel about the Sports Reporter's News.
What is happy and excited?
400
Use the words on page 140 to fill in the blank. I ___ my sadness when my team lost the game.
What is concealed?
400
"The fog walked on little cat feet across the meadow." is an example of ___.
What is personification?
500
Identify the two new lunch choices.
What is salad and pizza?
500
Tell me how camouflage helps frogs.
What is it protects them from animals that might want to eat them?
500
Name a topic that the Science Reporter may talk about tomorrow.
What is : teacher will decide. It must be science related.
500
Use a word from page 140 to fill in the blank. The little girl dressed herself because she wanted to be ___.
What is independent?
500
Identify the word on page 145 that means "full of success".
What is successful?
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