PSSA Reading Review

PSSA PREP

100

This is the amount of sleep you should aim for each night, especially during PSSA's

8 hours

200

This is the specific type of pencil you must use during the PSSA's for your answers to count

#2

300

These are the two subjects that all students take for PSSA's

Math and Reading or ELA 

400

This is the additional subject that 8th graders take for PSSA's

Science

500

It is important that you do this every morning, but especially during the PSSA's

Eat breakfast

Grammar

100

A person, place, or thing

noun

200

an action word 

Example) jump

Verb

300

Adding -ed to a word makes the word this

Ex) call becomes called

past-tense

400

short, cold, fast, and green are examples 

adjectives

500

The kids enjoyed playing in the snow they had hot chocolate when they went inside.

run-on sentence

Fix It!

100

There class went on a field trip. 

Their

200

The school dismissed early due to the snow but Henry still fell on the ice when he was walking home. 

snow, but

300

"Fire! the woman screamed. "Someone call 911!"

"Fire!"

400

"I think it's time for bed now" the mother said to her child. "You are up way past your bed time!"

now,"

500

It was way to cold to go outside without a jacket on. The boy could not wait for June to arrive.

too

Vocabulary

100

The meaning of aroma in the following sentence:

The aroma of the Thanksgiving dinner was making my mouth water. 

smell

200

The meaning of the word famished in the following sentence:

I hadn't eaten in six hours, so I was famished.

hungry

300

The meaning of the word elated in the sentence below:

She was absolutely elated by the gift we bought for her birthday.

thrilled

400

The antonym of arid in the sentence below:

The desert was arid and hot.

wet

500

The homophones that mean a common baking ingredient and something that grows in the spring. 

Flour and flower

Random

100

The plural of mouse

mice

200

-un in the word "uninterested"

prefix

300

The meaning of the prefix -hex in the word "hexagon."

six

400

The words that should be in italics in the following sentence:

I have subscribed to Sports Illustrated for two years.

Sports Illustrated

500

A word that can be used to take place of a noun.

Examples: she, he, her, him

pronouns