Tips
This is what you should do tonight to prepare for tomorrow's benchmark
What is to relax, imagine yourself doing well on the test, and get lots of sleep?
These are the people or animals who carry out the action in a story.
Who are characters?
This is the main point an author is trying to make in a non-fiction text.
What is the central or main idea?
A hint that the author gives to suggest what might happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
This point of view would be found in a text that uses lots of words like "I," "my," "we," and "our."
What is first person point of view?
This is what you should do before reading each new passage on the test.
What is jot genre and thinking jobs?
This is when and where a story takes place.
What is setting?
This is the author's perspective on a subject they are writing about.
What is the author's Point of View?
This is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is simile?
A reference to a significant historical, literary, cultural, or political figure or idea.
What is allusion?
This is what you should do if you get stuck on a hard question on the test.
What is pick an answer choice, bookmark it, and come back to it later?
The four thinking jobs for fiction.
What are characters, problem, solution, and lesson learned?
A summary of a non-fiction text should only include these types of details from the text.
What are the most important details?
"The classroom is a furnace" is an example of this figurative language device.
What is metaphor?
This is a strategy for deciphering word meaning in a passage.
What is context clues?
This is something you should do after reading the passage, but before answering the questions.
What is jotting answers to your thinking jobs?
Looking at how the conflict in a text is resolved and the lessons the characters learn from this resolution will often lead you to this.
What is the lesson learned or theme?
These are the thinking jobs for non-fiction.
What are teach and point-of-view?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of this type of figurative language device.
What is alliteration?
This can be conveyed through an author's choice of words in a text, and reveals how the author feels about a topic or character he or she is writing about.
What is tone?
These are the things that should be written on your scratch paper throughout the test.
What is your name, the genre and thinking jobs, the thinking job jots, and text evidence?
You can tell if a passage is a fiction text because it has these elements.
What are the characters, conflict, dialogue, and a lesson learned?
These are the 4 main purposes author's have when they create fiction and non-fiction texts. (You must name at least 3 of these).
What is to entertain, to inform, to explain/instruct, or to persuade?
"My computer hates me" is an example of this type of figurative language device.
What is personification?
An object, person, or idea in a text that has an additional meaning beyond its literal one.
What is symbol?