4th Grade ELA 1
What are the people in stories referred to as?
A) Authors
B) Characters
C) Narrators
D) Illustrators
B) Characters
How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?
A) 5 hours
B) 7 hours
C) 8 hours
D) 3 hours
Correct Answer: C) 8hours
What is it called when two words have the same meaning?
A) Simile
B) Synonym
C) Hyperbole
D) Analogy
Correct Answer: B) Synonym
What are the three reasons an author writes? (What is their purpose?)
A) To inform, entertain, persuade
B) To describe, compare, explain
C) To confuse, entertain, surprise
D) To argue, question, debate
Correct Answer: A) To inform, entertain, persuade
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
A) Illustrator
B) Editor
C) Author
D) Narrator
Correct Answer: C) Author
What is the MOST important thing you should do when taking a test?
A) Answer all questions as quickly as possible
B) Try your best!!
C) Skip the questions
D) Guess on every question
Correct Answer:B) Try your best!!
Is this sentence a simile or metaphor?
“The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”
Simile
What is a short version of the story that includes just the important details called?
A) Summary
B) Conclusion
C) Plot
D) Theme
Correct Answer: A) Summary
What text structure tells how something happened and why?
A) Compare and Contrast
B) Cause and Effect
C) Sequence
D) Description
Correct Answer: B) Cause and Effect
What do you do if you don't know the answer to a question?
What is skip it and come back to it later? OR Make an educated guess.
When the story is being told from an outside narrator
What is third-person point of view
What text structure would and author use when teaching someone about the life of a very important person?
A) Cause and Effect
B) Sequence
C) Compare and Contrast
D) Problem and Solution
Correct Answer: B) Sequence
What is the author trying to teach you in a story?
A) The setting of the story
B) The main character’s name
C) The theme or lesson (moral)
D) The number of pages in the book
Correct Answer: C) The theme or lesson (moral)
The multiple choice questions on a test are the fastest part and you should rush through it. True or False?
False. Take your time!
What do sensory details include?
A) Colors and numbers
B) Sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell
C) Characters and setting
D) Facts and opinions
Correct Answer: B) Sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell
What does the theme tell you?
The lesson learned or the author's message
Non-fiction means...
The story is true
You should skip every question you don't know and never go back to it. True or False?
What is false?
A disposable plastic water bottle may not look like a major threat to the environment, but chances are it will end up taking up space in a landfill—or in the ocean. Americans buy and discard about twenty-nine billion of these bottles per year, so all that waste really adds up. One of the easiest methods to reduce your use of plastic water bottles is to carry a reusable bottle and refill it with tap water. And if you do buy bottled water, recycle the bottle.
What text structure is used:
A) Compare & Contrast
B) Sequence
C) Cause & Effect
D) Problem/Solution
Correct Answer: D) Problem/Solution
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
A) Diagram
B) Photograph
C) Illustration
D) Chart
Correct Answer: A) Diagram
Fiction means...
A story is not real
When answering a short response, Answer be:
a) details from the text
b) from your own words
b) from your own words
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
Which of the following is NOT a text feature?
A) Headings
B) Table of Contents
C) Sentences
D) Bolded Text
Correct Answer: C) Sentences
What the story is mainly about?
Central idea
How many sentences should you have in a writing prompt for each paragraph?
What is 3-5 sentences?
Setting tells what two things?
Time and Place
What is the last paragraph in a essay called?
A.) Conclusion
B.) Body Paragraphs
c.) Ending
D.) Introduction
A.) Conclusion
Which of the following are examples of character traits?
A) Kind, Brave, Honest
B) Tall, Blue, Fast
C) Desk, Chair, Table
D) Running, Jumping, Swimming
Correct Answer: A) Kind, Brave, Honest
What process should you use when answering multiple-choice questions?
Throw absolutely wrong answers in the trash.
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
What are the sentences in a poem called?
A) Stanzas
B) Verses
C) Lines
D) Sections
Correct Answer: C) Lines
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
A) Theme
B) Plot
C) Author’s Purpose
D) Author’s Perspective (or Point of View)
Correct Answer: D) Author’s Perspective (or Point of View)
What MUST you do before submitting your test?
Review Answers
This is what you call the information that supports the Central Idea...
key or supporting details?
What are the paragraphs in a poem called?
A) Stanzas
B) Verses
C) Lines
D) Sections
Correct Answer: A) Stanzas
Find the Central Idea:
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the first woman to be elected as the leader of an African country. As president of Liberia, she made huge improvements in peoples' lives. Before Johnson Sirleaf became president in 2005, Liberia was in debt, and most people didn't have jobs. The country had also been divided by a long war. After Johnson Sirleaf entered office, she asked other countries for help with the debt. She made it possible for more girls to go to school. She also worked for peace in Liberia. Because of the important work she did in Liberia, she won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
A) Sirleaf's work made the lives of the people in Liberia better
B) Sirleaf worked to give girls the opportunity to go to school
Correct Answer: A) Sirleaf's work made the lives of the people in Liberia better
Name a type of breakfast to eat on the morning of a test day.
healthy breakfast, non sugary
Which detail supports the idea that the cold made it hard for humans to find things to eat.
A) The Ice Age was a time when large portions of the world were covered in ice.
B)Humans made warm clothes and shelter from animal skin, fur and bones.
C) Food became hard to come by because few plants could grow and many animals couldn't survive.
D) People had to find ways to protects themselves against the cold.
Correct Answer: C) Food became hard to come by because few plants could grow and many animals couldn't survive.
Which detail supports the idea that Delores Huerta made sure that workers would not give in during a strike?
A.) Delores helped organize a strike of workers to protest low wages in migrant farmers.
B.) If she found workers ready to give up and go to work, she blocked their cars with her truck of hid their car keys.
C.) Delores worked with Cesar Chavez to protest unfair treatment of migrant farmers in California
D.) Delores Huerta was quick-witted and fiesty.
B.) If she found workers ready to give up and go to work, she blocked their cars with her truck of hid their car keys.