Nonfiction
Fiction
Test Strategies
Poetry
Figurative Language
100

The topic plus the learning =

What is the Central Idea?

100

This tells the place and time of a story

Setting

100

What you should do the night before a FAST test?

get some sleep

100

A poem with 3 lines

haiku

100
He jumped so high he was a kangaroo.
Metaphor
200
What an Author tells you is true and then gives you evidence to support it?

Author's Claim

200

What a character is like on the inside?

Character Trait

200

Name 2 things you should you write on your scratch paper during the ELA FAST test?

titles 

type of text  

details 

summaries

200

A poem with 5 lines and a rhyme scheme AABBA

Limerick

200

This will be the easiest test you have ever taken.

hyperbole

300

A summary of a non-fiction text includes these two items ...

Central Idea and Relevant Details

300

The event in the story when a character changes their attitude toward something.

Turning Point

300

When you need to find the definition of a word in the text, what strategy can you use with the answer choices?

substitute them in

replace them

300

The dog ate my essay

it's going to be a bad day

I needed to submit it

I just don't get it        What type of poem is this?

Rhyme Verse

300
Liam is as smart as a computer.

simile

400
What type of Text Structure is used in the following sentence:


Worms and bears both sleep for the winter.  Like the bear the worms find a warm place to sleep and their bodies slow down.

Comparison

compare/contrast

400

How a character feels about something or someone in the story is that character's ____.

perspective

400

if there is a passage 1 ...

there is a passage 2

400

Which 2  of these words rhyme?

Yay     No   Sleigh  submit

Yay    Sleigh

400

The dog spoke to me when I asked him a question.

personification

500

What is the Author's Purpose for writing a speech if they want you to vote for them?

to persuade
500
How to summarize a fiction story?

SWBST

500
If I don't know the answer to a question I can always look in the question or title and find ____   ____.

key words

500
To find the meaning of a poem I must first _____ the poem

read

500

Write a simile on your board.

any answer that works