Ms. Burnett's ELA Jeopardy Review

Test Strategies

100

You are about to start reading a passage with lots of questions. What do you do first?

Read the questions first, then read the passage.

200

How can you help yourself to spell words from the passage?

Have the story on the left while you type your answers on the right. Find the exact line with the word, point to it, and type it letter by letter.

300

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?

Pick the best answer. Flag it for review, and come back and re-read that passage if you have time and see if your answer choice is correct.

400

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

500

Your writing prompt is this: Write a multi-paragraph response to tell us more about bats. Be sure to include how they can be helpful and special characteristics they have. What will your 1st introductory sentence say. What will the 2nd topic sentence say on the back of your graphic organizer? 

1. Bats are important animals that can be helpful in many ways.

2. Here are special characteristics that bats have in common.

3rd Grade ELA

100

What is the suffix of the word unbelievable?

able

200

Who is the speaker?

the person telling the poem or story

300

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

un means not 

400

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

The Main Idea or central idea

500

What do we call "the message or the lesson of a story?"

The Theme

3rd Grade Vocabulary

100

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

Simile

200

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

Table of Contents

300

What is the author's purpose?

Why the author wrote the text.

400

What is dialogue?

characters talking out loud in a story with quotation marks around the words

500

What are the "paragraphs" in poems called?

Stanzas 

Grammar/Other

100

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

Noun

200

This part of speech is an action.

Verb

300

This part of speech describes a noun.

Adjective

400

What is a caption?

The writing under a picture.

500

What is a story that is written from the author's imagination?

Fiction

Test Strategies

100

What do you do if you have finished your test but you still have more time left of the 90 minutes?

Re-read the stories and your answers to make sure that you picked the answers that can be found in the text. See if you can add more details to your writing in your own words. Use CUPS to check EVERY sentence! Read it out loud to yourself.

200

What do you do to your paper to make a rough draft/writing plan?

Create a graphic organizer. 

300

How many sentences should you write for each paragraph?

At least 3!

400

What do you do when you infer?

I look back in the text, use what I know, and FIGURE OUT what it means from the clue words.

500

What genre tells us about a real person and true events in their life?

biography (and it's nonfiction)