4th Grade ELA 1
What are the people in stories referred to as?
B) Characters
How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?
Correct Answer: C) 8hours
What is it called when two words have the mean the same thing example Big and Huge
Synonym
What text structure tells how something happened and why?
Correct Answer: B) Cause and Effect
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
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 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 are the three reasons an author writes? (What is their purpose?)
Correct Answer: A) To inform, entertain, persuade
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.
What does it mean to infer?
To make a guess using the information in the passage and things you already know.
Brittany's mom walks into the kitchen wearing her sun hat and a pair of old shoes. “Those vegetable plants are growing by leaps and bounds!” she exclaims to Brittany, as she takes off a dirty glove and wipes a smudge of dirt off her face.
Where was Brittany's Mom?
Working in the garden
What does Central Idea mean?
It's another word for main idea. What the story is mostly about.
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
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.
Non-fiction means...
Full of facts, true (not fake)
When answering a short response, what strategy should you use?
RADD
What does the theme tell you?
The lesson learned or the author's message
What is the last paragraph in a essay called?
A.) Conclusion
Fiction means...
A story is not real (fake)
Name a type of breakfast to eat on the morning of a test day.
healthy breakfast, non sugary
What are the paragraphs in a poem called?
A) Stanzas
B) Verses
C) Lines
D) Sections
Correct Answer: A) Stanzas
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
What the story is mainly about?
Central idea
What MUST you do before submitting your test?
Review Answers
Setting tells what two things?
Time and Place
What is the theme of this paragraph?
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she'd be punished.
The theme is to be honest, or do the right thing.
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 are the steps to answering multiple-choice questions?
1. Read the question
2. Highlight key terms and find the paragraphs
3. Read the passage
4. Read the question again
5. Eliminate answers
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
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.