Test Vocab
This phrase means to describe similarities and differences between two topics/ideas/texts.
Compare & Contrast
When reading a question and reviewing the answers, what can you do when you know an answer is incorrect?
Use the elimination tool to cross it out.
If you read a poem and the author used personification, what would that mean the author tried to do?
Give human characteristics to something non-human
What color are Smurfs?
Blue
This word means to retell the main points! You are not telling the whole story just the most important information
Summarize
What should you do before you start reading and answering questions?
Read the directions!
If a question asks you about theme, what is it asking you to determine?
The moral or lesson of the story
If you suffer from arachnophobia, which animal are you scared of?
Spiders
This word means to make your own conclusion using the facts you have been given
Infer
What should you do if you have more time?
GO BACK and review your answers making sure that you got every detail you wanted to include.
"The person associated with the smell I’m trying to locate must be deep underneath the wreckage or I would have already caught a whiff.". What does "Whiff" mean?
Scent
Can you name the closest star to Earth?
The Sun
This word means to determine the value or significance
Evaluate
What tool should you use if you want to skip a question and come back to it later?
The bookmark tool
When a question asks for the main purpose of a text, what is it asking you to identify?
The overall message in the text - what the "Gist" was and what you are supposed to get out of it.
Two of the planets in our solar system begin with the letter M, can you name them?
Mars and Mercury
This word means to look at each part and describe how the fit together to make the whole. Think of this like a puzzle - how to all the pieces fit together and what they create.
Analyze
What can you use to organize your thoughts and work out your problems?
Your scratch paper or notes tool
If the test asks you to write an essay about a text, how long should it be?
An essay is a MULTIPLE paragraph response!
What is the name of Harry Potter's pet owl?
Hedwig