5th Grade ELA
Test Taking Strategies
5th Grade ELA
5th Grade Random
Rules
100

What are the people, animals, objects or creatures in stories?

Who are characters?

100

How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?

What is 8 hours?

100

This is when two words have the same meaning.

 What is a synonym?

100

What year was LA Elementary founded?

What is 1993?
100

Can you use the restroom?

(Name the rule).

What is Yes?

2 people out at a time. 

200

The person who writes the story? 

Who is the author?

200

What time should you get to school on test days? 

What is no later than 7:55 am

200

This figure of speech is being used in this sentence “The boy felt like a lion because he was so courageous.”

What is a simile?

200

What day is Ms.Quinn's favorite drink?

What is coffee?

What is Gatorade Zero? 

200

Can you look at other computer screens?

What is....No?!

300

Name an informational and literary title we have in our library.

Answers will vary.

300

What you do if you don't know the answer to a question.

Reread the question and annotate? 

300

This is what you call a book that talks about a person’s life from beginning to end

What is an Biography?

300

Daily Double: 

This figurative device sounds like the words they spell. Ex. Bang, Boom, Crash

What is onomatopoeia? 

300

Can you ask for help?

What is NO?! 

400

These are the conjunctions in the acronym FANBOYS.

What are for, and, neither, but, or, yet, and so?

400

How many times should you read through a text? 

At least 3 times 
400

Sensory details include.

What are details that help you imagine what things sound like, sound like, smells like, tastes like or feels like

400

What street is the school is on?

What is Hobart and Pico?

400

What can you do after you submit the test?

What is sit quietly or read a book?

500

Non-fiction means...

The story is true

500

You should skip every question you don't know and never go back to it. True or False?

 What is false?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!! This is what you call a story you write about your own life. 

What is an Autobiography

500

This is what you call when a large group of people move from one part of a country to live in another part.

What is migration?

500

Are you allowed to wear a smart watch during testing?

What is no? 

600

Fiction means...

What is a story is not real?

600

What should you do with scratch paper in ELA?

 What is create a graphic organizer?

What is take notes while reading the text? 

600

This is a piece of literature that is based on imaginary people, events and worlds

What is Fiction?

600

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?


What is a stamp?

600

Should you be on time on testing day?

What is absolutely?! 

700

This an example of: I can determine the theme of the story and include it in a summary.

What is a learning objective?

700

A paragraph should be this long.

What are 4-8 sentences?

700

What is an adjective?

Describes a noun

700

This country’s flag has 50 stars.

Bonus: What do the 50 stars represent? (double points)

What is the United States of America?

What are each of the 50 states?

700

What happens if you arrive late to school the day of the test?

What is you may not be allowed to test with your class?

800

Give an example of both a simile and a metaphor.

Answers will vary.

800

What do you do if you run into an unfamiliar word? 

What is context clues to determine the definition?

800

Setting tells these two things about a story.

What is the Time and Place it occurs?

800

Who was the 44th President of the United states?

Barak Obama

800

It is important to come to school on time and all day every test day, Why?

What you get to celebrate being at grade level this summer?!!!