ELA Review
What are the people in stories referred to as?
What are....characters?
This strategy means you must find a sentence or detail in the passage that supports your answer.
What is the “Prove It” strategy?
This is when two words means the same thing
What is a synonym?
What is author's purpose? What is author's message?
Purpose- Why
Message-Lesson
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
What is the tone?
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
what is the author
This strategy involves crossing out answer choices you know are incorrect to improve your chances.
What is eliminating wrong answers?
This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
Number of continents in the world
What is 7?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
What is a Glossary
This strategy encourages you to think about why the test creator included a question.
What is “Think Like the Test Maker”?
This is what you call a book that talks about a person’s life from beginning to end
What is an Biography?
Daily Double:
This word is the name for sound words. Ex. Bang, Boom, Crash"
Onomatopoeia
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake.
What is....Sequence/Steps/Chronological
What the author is trying to teach you?
What is theme.
This strategy means going back to read only the part of the text that helps answer the question.
What is rereading with a purpose?
What does sensory details include?
What is details that help you see, hear, smell, taste and feel
I'm part a whole but not the same, I can tell the size or portion you claim. In pizza or pie, I come into play. What am I?
A Fraction.
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
Non-fiction means...
What is...The story is true
This strategy involves restating the question in your own words before answering.
What is putting it in your own words?
DAILY DOUBLE!! This is what you call a story you write about your own life.
What is an Autobiography
What is the preposition in the sentence below.
Every year, we dance with my friends near the big pond.
Preposition: Near
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
What is a diagram.
Fiction means...
What is....A story is not real
These should be underlined in both the question and the passage to help you focus.
What are keywords?
This is a piece of literature that is based on people, events and worlds that are not true
What is Fiction?
My faces are many, my angles are fixed, find area and perimeter within the matrix. What am I?
What is Geometry.
The parts of a drama that let the actors/cast know what to do.
What is....Stage directions
What the text is mainly about?
What is....Main idea
This helps you figure out the meaning of unknown words using nearby sentences.
What are context clues?
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun
I turn sunlight into food, I'm not a chef but what I do is good. In leaves, I take hold, for green plants of old. What am I?
What is Photosynthesis.
What is the last element of the plot element chart?
What is....resolution
Name 3 character traits
What is...answers may vary
These words (like “however” and “therefore”) signal important changes or ideas in a text.
What are transition words?
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story.
What is main idea or central idea?
I roar from the ground, ash thrown high; lava is my blood, and smoke fills the sky. What am I?
What is a Volcano.
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
What is the author's point of view or perspective?
This type of answer choice may sound correct but is not supported by the text.
What is a tricky or unsupported answer?
What does the theme tell you?
What is....The lesson learned or the author's message
I dance with words in rhythms that flow, where rhymes can match and feelings show. What am I?
What is Poetry.
What are the paragraphs in a poem called? and what are the sentences called?
What is....Stanzas and Lines
Give an example of both a simile and a metaphor
Answers may vary
This step helps reduce mistakes by making sure your answer matches the question.
What is checking your answer with the question?
Setting tells what two things?
What is.....Time and Place
What is inferencing?
What is.....Use what you already know and what the text says to make an educated guess about the text.
What is a claim?
What is argument