Test Taking Words
The meaning of convey.
What is to show?
This is something a summary must never have.
What is an opinion?
What type of sentence is this?
I went to the store to buy milk, but I forgot my wallet.
What is a compound sentence?
The first thing you should do when you encounter a passage.
What is read through the title, captions, headings, subheadings and pictures?
The problem in the story.
What is conflict?
The meaning of the word contradict.
What is to be against or to be opposite of?
To identify the main lesson from the whole story.
What is theme?
What type of sentence is this?
I am ready for the STAAR test because I have been working hard all year.
What is a complex sentence?
You use this to make a prediction about what the text will be about.
What is the title and subheadings?
The enemy of the main character.
What is an antagonist?
Another meaning of the word portray.
What is to show?
Allows you to visualize a part of text.
Double Jeopardy:
Another word for visualization.
What are sensory details?
What is imagery ?
This sentence is identified as a ____.
We are reading on Friday to finish our bookclub books we will then start our projects Monday.
What is a run on sentence?
When you encounter a word you don't know in one of the answer choices, you do this.
What is look it up in the dictionary?
In persuasion, something that is attractive at first, but if you think about it, it makes no sense.
What is faulty reasoning?
The meaning of significant.
What is important?
When characters talk back and forth.
Double Jeopardy! This is how you know there is dialogue in a poem or story.
What is dialogue?
What are quotation marks?
This sentence is a _______.
Because she is already 13
What is a fragment?
When choosing a word's definition that is being used, a reader uses ________ _________ and/or a _______.
Double Jeopardy!
When deciding which word or definition to use, a good reader will do this.
What is context clues and a dictionary?
What is using that word or definition in the sentence to see if it sounds right?
When a person writes the story of their own life.
What is an autobiography?
The author's position about a subject.
What is the author's opinion?
The purpose of using 1st person point of view.
What is only understanding the thoughts and feelings of the narrator?
A clause that begins with a subordinating conjunction and has a subject and a verb.
What is a dependent clause?
A strategy used when a reader encounters a paired passage.
What is read and answer questions for one passage, then the next, then finally the paired questions?
or
What is SARA?
When a nonfiction article presents ideas in the order in which they occured in time.
What is chronological order?