Reading
Vocabulary
Language
Writing
Test-Taking Strategies
100

A fiction text that has acts, scenes, cast of characters, and stage directions. 

What is a drama or play? 

100

Words that have opposite meanings. 

What are antonyms?

100

The meaning of the word "unusual?"

What is "not usual?" 

100

What writing strategy should be used for the following prompt? 

Retell the story, Max's Dog Business.

What is the RETELLING FRAME?

100

What writing strategy should be used for the following prompt? 

What is the central message of the story?

What is the R.A.C.E Strategy?

200

This tells what the passage is mostly about.

What is the main idea? 

200

Words that have similar meanings.

What are synonyms? 

200

A word that replaces a noun.  (he, she, it, they) 

What is a pronoun?

200

Which writing strategy should be used for the following prompt? 

Read the story, A Dog's Day.  Write a new ending to the story that tells what would happen if John did not get a dog.

What is the NARRATIVE RECIPE?

200

I should do this before I read the passage.

What is preview the questions?

300

A text that is organized in lines and stanzas.

What is a poem?

300

Words used to find the meaning of an unfamiliar word while reading. 

What are context clues? 

300

Nouns that you cannot see, touch, feel, hear, or smell.  

What are abstract nouns? 

300

Which writing strategy should be used for the following prompt?

After reading the articles "Pets are Good for Children" and "Dogs Are Dangerous", Write an essay that describes your opinion about children having pets.  Be sure to use evidence from BOTH articles that support your opinion.

What is "H-DOUBLE STUFFED OREO"?

300

Read all of the answer choices before deciding which choices to keep and which choices to delete.

What is KEEP and DELETE?

400

A text that is organized in sentences, paragraphs and/or chapters.  It also has characters, a setting, plot and dialogue.

What is a story? 

400
A word part at the beginning of a root word that changes the meaning of the word. 

What is a prefix?

400

Words that are used to connect clauses or sentences.

What are conjunctions? 

400

What writing strategy should be used for the following prompt? 

Think about the ideas in both passages and write an informational piece in your own words that explain how the weather affects our mood.

What is S-TRIPLE-D-C?

OR 

What is R.A.C.E.?

400
If I finish my test before the time ends I should...

Go back and review my answers.

500

This describes the lesson the author wants the reader to learn from the story.

What is the central message? 

500

A word part added to the end of a root word that changes the meaning of a word. 

What is a suffix? 

500

Which writing strategy should be used for the following prompt? 

What is the main idea of the passage?

What is the R.A.C.E. Strategy?

500

Which writing strategy should be used for the following prompt?

Write a conclusion to the story in which Anna and Michael go back into the attic to see what else they could find.

What is the "NARRATIVE RECIPE"?

500

Are you going to try your best everyday on the milestones?

YESSSSSSSSS!!!!

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