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Test Strategies
3rd Grade ELA
3rd Grade Vocabulary
Grammar Review
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You are about to start reading a passage with lots of questions. What do you do first?

Read the title and questions first, then read the passage.

100

What is the suffix of the word unbelievable?

able

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What is it called when you compare to things using LIKE or AS?

Simile

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This part of speech is a person, place, thing.

Noun

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You are reading a passage. What tool should you use to help you remember an important sentence?

The highlighter!

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Who is the speaker?

the person telling the poem or story


200

What text feature lists heading along with their page numbers? (at the beginning) 

Table of Contents

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This part of speech is an action.

Verb

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You read a passage and are answering a question. You think you know the answer, but you are not 100% sure. What can you do?

REREAD!

300

What is the prefix of unhappy? What does it mean?

un means not 

300

What is the author's purpose?

Why the author wrote the text.

300

This part of speech describes a noun.

Adjective
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Usually 2 answers are obviously wrong and 2 seem like they might be correct. What tool can you use to help you answer questions.

CROSSOUT/STRIKETHROUGH

400

What do we call "what a passage is mostly about?"

The Main Idea or central idea


400

What is dialogue?

characters talking out loud in a story with quotation marks around the words
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What is a caption?

The writing under a picture.

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If a question asks you to support your answer with details... what do you need to do?

Find evidence from the text that supports your answer
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What do we call "the message or the lesson of a story?"

The Theme

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What are the "paragraphs" in poems called?

Stanzas 

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What is a story that is fake called?

Fiction