Testing
One thing you should do before you read the passages in the test.
What is read the questions.
The time and place where the story happens.
What is the setting.
Non-fiction text may have photographs, captions, graphs, charts and maps, and these are called _______ ____________.
What are text features.
Max has the skill of great baseball player. He is the only boy I know with the ability to hit two homeruns in one game!
Define the word ability as it is used in the sentence above.
What is skill.
A story that tells how the author thinks or feels is told from their point of ____________.
What is view.
Cell phones, smartphones, talking to your neighbor, sharing test answers.
What are things not allowed on the test.
What is the main idea or main topic.
The reason an author writes the text is called __________ ____________.
What is author's purpose.
The teacher's directions were so unclear that I just could not understand what to do.
What is not clear, hard to understand.
Telling the events that happen in order or sequence is called _________________ ______________.
What is chronological order.
These are things you should do the night before the test.
What is eat a good dinner and go to bed early.
This is the author's big idea in a story, the subject or topic of the passage that expresses the author's thoughts.
What is theme.
The text structure of a non-fiction text where the author tells about a problem and how it can be solved.
What is problem and solution.
Le'Ajah was as swift or fast as a cheetah when she ran the morning mile yesterday.
Define the word swift as used in the sentence above.
What is fast.
Information that tells more about the main idea of a paragraph are called the supporting ______________.
What are details.
When you don't know the answer to a question, these are things you could do.
What is eliminate incorrect answers, mark it and come back to it later, make a good guess.
What is a moral.
This tells you what a section or paragraph of non-fiction text is all about.
What is the caption.
Crabs hide in their shell to protect themselves from being eaten by predators in the ocean.
Define the word predators as used in the sentence above.
What are animals that hunt and eat other animals.
In a fiction or non-fiction passage, the words are organized in groups called __________________.
What are paragraphs.
Underline important words in the question, read the passages carefully, sound out words you don't know, choose the best answer and check over your work.
What are things you should do all through the test.
This is conversation between two characters, and there are usually quotation marks around the words the characters are speaking.
What is dialogue.
The place in the back of a book where you can look to find words and definitions from the text.
What is the glossary.
The video game I wanted to buy at Walmart was unavailable so I had to choose a different game.
Define the word unavailable as used in the sentence above.
What is not available.
What you do when you tell how two or more things are the same and different.
What is compare and contrast.