4th Grade ELA
Test Taking Strategies
4th Grade ELA
4th Grade Random
4th Grade Reading
100

What are the people in stories referred to as?

what are characters?

100

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

What is 8 hours?

100

This is when 2 words means the same thing

 What is a synonym?

100

What 3 SOL's do 4th graders take?

Reading, Math and Social Studies(Virginia Studies)

100

How the author feels about a topic is known as...

What is the author's point of view or perspective?

200

What is the name of the person who writes the story? 

what is the author
200

The MOST important thing you should do when taking a test.

What is try your best?
200

This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”

What is a Simile?

200

Number of regions in Virginia

What is 5?

200

This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.

What is the summary?

300

The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?

What is a Glossary

300

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

What is skip it and come back to it later? OR Make an educated guess.

300

How do I become a Focused Fox?

Be Kind, Be Safe, and Be Responsible

300

Daily Double: 

What does "She was a knock-out" mean?

What is a metaphor for beautiful?

300

What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake.

Sequence/Steps/Chronological

400

What the author is trying to teach you?

What is theme.

400

The multiple choice questions on a test are the fastest part and you should rush through it. True or False?

False. Take your time!

400

What does sensory details include?

What is details that help you see, hear, smell, taste and feel

400

What is white and black and read all over?

A newspaper

400

When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"

What is first person?

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

"She was happy as a clam"

What is a Simile?

500

A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?

What is a diagram.

600

Fiction means...

A story is not real

600

What should you do if you are answering multiple-choice questions?

Process of Elimination
600

The first step when identifying main idea.

What is topic?

600

Coal

What is the main export of the Appalachian Plateau?

600

The parts of a story's plot tells you when the protagonist comes face-to-face with their problem

What is the Climax

700

What the story is mainly about?

Main idea

700

How many sentences should you have in a writing prompt for each paragraph?

What is 3-5 sentences?

700

What is an adjective?

Describes a noun

700

Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?

Fruit

700

What is the ending of a story called?

resolution

800

Text structures

What are Compare/contrast, cause/effect, Chronology, and Problem/Solution

800

What process should you use when answering multiple-choice questions?

Process Of Elimination. 

800

This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story.

What is main idea or central idea?

800

What two colors make blue. 

Green and Yellow.

800

To describe how things are alike and how they are different

What is compare and contrast?

900

How the author feels about a topic is known as...

What is the author's point of view or perspective?

900

What MUST you do before submitting your test?

What is going back and making sure you answered every question? 

900

What does the theme tell you?

The lesson learned or the author's message 

900

CLT Day

What is Wednesday

900

What are the paragraphs in a poem called? and what are the sentences called?

Stanzas and Lines

1000

Give an example of both a simile and a metaphor

Answers may vary

1000

Name a type of breakfast to eat on the morning of a test day.

healthy breakfast, non sugary 

1000

Setting tells what two things?

Time and Place

1000

Name all of Virginia's waterways

Potomac, Rappahannock, York, James, Chesepeake Bay, Atlantic Ocean, Dismal Swamp, and Lake Drummond.

1000

Name one type of text feature.

headings/title/subtitles/pictures/graphs/sidebars/captions