7th Grade ELA 1
What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
What does Nya’s perspective in the first four chapters of A Long Walk to Water mainly show?
A. The importance of education in her village
B. The challenges of fetching water every day
C. Her excitement about traveling to new places
B. The challenges of fetching water every day.
Evidence should be followed by this to explain how it supports the claim
reasoning/explanation
On multiple-choice reading questions, an answer that uses extreme words like “always” or “never” is sometimes incorrect because the text may not fully support such a strong claim.
TRUE
TRUE or FALSE: Repeated details in a passage are usually unimportant and should be ignored while reading/annotating
FALSE
The problem of the story
The message or lesson of the story
Theme
This annotation strategy helps you track important information by marking key words directly in the question and passage
Highlighting
She is busy as a bee.
What type of figurative language is this?
simile
What is text evidence?
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different
When the narrator uses "She, He, they" it is written in this perspective
Third Person
Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction = a made up story
Nonfiction = text based on factual information
What type of figurative language is this?
"The candle flickered in the dark room, casting long, dancing shadows across the cracked wooden floor."
imagery
Which sentences are examples of metaphors.
The sun was a bright ball of fire.
The bunny was as soft as velvet.
The shoes were a smelly skunk.
That test was as easy as pie.
1. The sun was a bright ball of fire.
3. The shoes were a smelly skunk.
What should you do while answering multiple choice questions to increase your chances of getting the correct answer?
Eliminate answers you know are incorrect
What a nonfiction text is mostly about?
Facts or real events
This part of an argument acknowledges the opposing side’s viewpoint
Counterclaim
What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence:
"I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!"
hyperbole - This is an exaggeration because the speaker hasn’t literally said it a million times, but it emphasizes how often the request has been made.
This is the MOST important reason for using text evidence on a reading test
to prove/support your answer
If two answers seem correct, you should choose the one that is most supported by this.
the text/passage
Clues found around an unfamiliar word that help readers determine meaning are called these
Context Clues
How many nouns are in this sentence:
Bobby and Shayna drove past the store and quickly parked by Chipotle.
4
This is the central message or main point the author wants readers to understand in an informational text.
Central Idea
The wind whispered secrets through the trees,
Dancing softly in the evening breeze.
The moon wore a silver crown so bright,
Watching over the world at night.
Question: What is the figurative language used in this poem, and what does it mean?
Personification—The wind is given the human trait of whispering, which creates an image of gentle movement and sound.