Test Strategies
What should you do at home the morning of the test?
Eat a good breakfast
What do we call the animals or people in a story?
Characters
What is it called when you compare to things using LIKE or AS?
Simile
This part of speech is a person, place, thing.
Noun
At least how many times do you have to read the selection?
At least twice (Read it again if you still do not understand it)
How long will you have for the ELA tests?
3 days of class time
What do we call "where the story takes place?"
What text feature lists heading along with their page numbers? (at the beginning)
Table of Contents
This part of speech is an action.
Verb
What do you do to the questions?
Highlight important words and make notes
Can I take the whole test in one day?
NO! I need to take my time.
What is a prefix? What is the prefix of unhappy?
It comes before a root word, and un.
What is the author's purpose?
Why the author wrote the text.
This part of speech describes a noun.
What do you do to the answer choices you know are wrong?
cross them out
What can I do after I have finished my test?
Read a book or do the activity pages provided to me.
What do we call "what a passage is mostly about?"
Main Idea or central idea
What are the three reasons a author writes a passage or story?
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
How do we know a character in the story is speaking? What is it called?
The text is in between quotation marks, and it is called dialogue.
How do you prove your answers?
Highlighting and writing the paragraph number you found your answer
I will remember that I am _______. I will take ________. Mr. Hill __________.
I am smart!
my time!
Mr. Hill is proud of me!
What do we call "the message or the lesson of a story?"
Theme
What are the groups of lines in poems called?
Stanzas
What is a story that is fake called?
Fiction
I CAN and WILL take (two things)
my time and check my work.