This important behavior can help you search and find specific information in a passage that you need to help you answer questions.
What is underlining or highlighting?
100
The number of details you should include in your short response answer.
What are two?
100
A strategy you can use when you come across a tricky word in a passage that you do not know.
What is plugging in a word that sounds right?
(Also reading the whole sentence and trying to figure out the meaning from the context).
100
The name for the kind of figurative language used when a human quality or trait is given to an object.
What is personification?
100
Something a fable or legend is usually trying to teach you.
What is a lesson/life lesson?
200
These are two important things you need to do the night before a test.
What are getting a good night's sleep and eating breakfast in the morning?
200
The first step you use when beginning the answer to a short response question.
What is flipping the question.
200
When reading FICTION passages, the four items you can keep track of by underlining or highlighting to help you understand the story better.
What is C.S.P.S.? (Character, Setting, Problem, Solution)
200
The kind of figurative language used when the author makes a comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
The number of days students will be sitting for the ELA test.
What are 3?
300
Something that you do to help you stay focused during the test.
What are stretching, taking a few deep breaths, telling yourself you can do it, or moving on to a different question and then coming back to a harder one later.
300
This is a strategy you can use when writing your extended response to make sure you are including details or evidence from the passage in your answer.
What is including a quote.
300
The name for the kind of writing that authors use to help you create an image or picture in your mind.
What is figurative language?
300
The kind of language an author uses when making a comparison by saying that one thing IS another thing.
What is a metaphor?
300
Something that the ELA test does NOT teach you.
What is how smart you are?
400
This is something you ALWAYS want to do first, BEFORE you begin reading a passage.
What is reading the directions? (also acceptable are: checking the picture/title).
400
Two key words you often find in the directions for extended responses that mean to write about the similarities and differences between two people, places, or ideas.
What are compare and contrast?
400
These useful non-fiction text features tell the reader what each section is mostly about.
What are the headings/sub-headings?
400
"The evening sun was throwing shadows across the side of the mountain and touching its peak with a ruddy blaze."
This is an example of:
What is personification?
400
This is the name of Ms. Burrell's dog.
Who is Leia?
500
This is a great strategy to use when you are answering multiple choice questions and not sure which answer to choose.
What is eliminating the wrong answers or crossing out wrong answers.
500
The MOST IMPORTANT thing you need to do BEFORE you begin writing your extended response.
What is reading the question carefully?
500
A strategy you can use when reading non-fiction passages to help you understand the passage better.
What is finding the main idea/supporting details or chunking the text and finding the main idea/supporting details?
500
A helpful strategy to use when reading poetry to get a better sense of what the poem is about.
What is paying attention to words that create an image in your mind?
500
The character from a famous movie series that Ms. Burrell's dog is named after.