Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figuartive Language & Poetry
Testing strategies
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100

A sentence that explains what is going on in the photo  that accompanies the text.  

What is a caption?

100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100

You do this when you don't immediately know the answer to the question.

What is reread?

200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200

This is what you do when you first start the test. 

What is read the questions?

300

This is what you do when you put together what you already know with the details already in the story. 

What is make an inference?

300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
300

This is what you look for when you don't know the meaning of a word. 

What are context clues?

300
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
300

This is what you do the night before the test.

What is get a good night's sleep?

400
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks and the problem is solved.
What is the turning point?
400

This text structure explains events and what happens because of those events.

What is a cause and effect?

400

When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.

What is a prefix?

400
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400

this is what you do with the answer choices that you know are not correct.

What is process of elimination?

500
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
500

The statement that tells you what a text is mostly about. 

What is the main idea?

500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
500

 What type of figurative language is this?

Peter picked a pack of pickled peppers.

alliteration

500

This is what you do when you reach the end of the test.

What is double check to make sure you have answered all the questions?

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