Test Strategies
The beautiful soft purple flower petals softly touched my face. What figurative language is this?
What is imagery?
What do we call the animals or people in a story?
Characters
What is it called when you compare to things using LIKE or AS?
Simile
This is the PLOT
What is the problem and solution?
At least how many times do you have to read the selection?
At least twice (Read it again if you still do not understand it)
The moon followed me all the way home, what figurative language is this?
What is personification?
What do we call "where the story takes place?"
What text feature lists heading along with their page numbers? (at the beginning)
Table of Contents
What are pictures, maps, timelines, illustrations
What are graphic features?
What do you do to the questions?
Highlight important words and make notes
Peter Piper Picked a Pack of Pickled Peppers
What is alliteration?
What is the main idea of a story?
What the story is mostly about?
What is the author's purpose?
Why the author wrote the text.
What are bullets, captions, heading, boldface,color
What are text features
What do you do to the answer choices you know are wrong?
cross them out
POP! BOOM! RING! is an example of what figurative language
What is an onomatopoeia?
What do we call "what a passage is mostly about?"
Main Idea or central idea
What is PIE
Persuade, Inform, and Entertain
when a story's narrator is I, me, we
What is first person point of view?
How do you prove your answers?
Highlighting and writing the paragraph number you found your answer
Name the 4 text structures
What is problem and solution, cause and effect, sequence, comparison and contrast
What do we call "the message or the lesson of a story?"
Theme
What is RACCE
Restate the question
Answer the question
Cite text evidence
Cite text evidence
Explain
When a story's narrator is she, he, they,
What is third person point of view?
I CAN and WILL take (two things)
notes and breaks!!!!