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"The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the error."
The above sentence would be classified as which of the following?
a) A simple sentence
b) A compound sentence
c) A complex sentence
d) An interrogative sentence
A reader infers that the author of an article is biased. This is an example of which of the following?
a) Literal comprehension
b) Critical comprehension
c) Metacognition
d) Quantitative dimensions
B. critical comprehension
According to the Common Core standards for language progressive skills, what is the earliest grade in which a student would be expected to produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons?
a) Grade 1
b) Grade 3
c) Grade 6
d) Grade 8
B) grade 3
Which of the following is not true about rhetorical questions?
a) They are meant to be answered by the audience after the speaker has finished.
b) They are an effective form of audience interaction
c) They are useful to introduce a subject
d) They are actually declarative statements phrased in an interrogatory form
a) They are meant to be answered by the audience after the speaker has finished.
What is Phonological Awareness?
How sounds, syllables, words, & parts of words can be orally manipulated to break apart words, make new words, and create rhymes.
The word "democracy" is derived from the Greek language. This is an example of what?
a) Etymology
b) Connotative meaning
c) Prosody
d) A Dolch list word
A. Etymology
The process of deriving meaning from text through application of what the reader already knows, the reader's ability to decipher the text and the context of the passage is known as:
a) Metacognition
b) Fast Mapping
c) Analogy
d) Reading Comprehension
D. Reading comprehension
Put the stages of writing development into chronological order.
a) Drawing, Scribbling, Producing letter like forms, Phonemic Awareness, Spelling phonetically, Spelling conventionally
b) Scribbling, Drawing, Writing letter sequences, Producing letter like forms, Spelling phonetically, Spelling conventionally
c) Drawing, Scribbling, Producing letter like forms, Writing letter sequences, Spelling phonetically, Spelling conventionally
d) Drawing, Drawing geometric objects, Producing letter like forms, Writing letter sequences, Segmenting, Blending
c. Drawing, Scribbling, Producing letter like forms, Writing letter sequences, Spelling phonetically, Spelling conventionally
Which of the following is an example of a primary source?
A. Biography
B. Handwritten journal
C. Magazine article about an event
D. Social Studies text book
B. Handwritten Journal
What is Onset?
Beginning consonant before the vowel; block = bl
Miss Caron creates a list of ten words and then asks her student to tell her the opposite of each one. Given this method of instruction, which of the following skills is Miss Caron most likely interested in measuring?
a) Expressive skills
b) Receptive skills
c) Selectivity
d) Rhetorical skills
C. Selectivity
An advertisement would best be described as an example of which of the following types of text?
a) Literary
b) Informational
c) Persuasive
d) Interpretive
C. Persuasive
Which of the following is not considered plagiarism?
a) Quoting another author word for word without a citation
b) Paraphrasing and mentioning the source
c) Unintentionally creating a work that is clearly similar to another author's work
d) Copying someone else's work but changing a few words
b) Paraphrasing and mentioning the source
Common Words that kids recognize instantly without sounding them out. Sight words allow students to become more fluent readers
What is Rime?
Vowel and everything after; block = ock
What is the main idea of the following passage?
"Sunday mornings my grandfather presided at his church. And every Sunday afternoon, the family ate chicken. The preacher had to have his Sunday chicken. He was served chicken, but I got chicken feet. Once I left my grandparents' home to play professional baseball, I never ate chicken again. I also didn't attend church until my career was over."
a) A weekly dinner brought the family together.
b) Chicken feet do not taste good
c) A young man rebels against his upbringing
d) A harsh childhood builds character
C. A young man rebels against his upbringing
Which of the following is not a feature of the Common Core standards for argumentative writing?
a) Introduce claims and organize reasons and evidence clearly
b) Establish and maintain a formal style
c) Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among reasons
d) Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically
d) Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically
Which of the following is the best explanation of how primary sources and secondary sources differ?
a) Secondary sources are based on primary sources
b) Primary sources are written in primary school, and secondary sources are written in secondary school
c) Primary sources are newspapers and television shows. Secondary sources are magazines and books
d) Primary sources are typically more accurate, while secondary sources tend to be filled with more inaccuracies
a) Secondary sources are based on primary sources
What is Prosody?
How you are saying the words, are they using expression and inflection?
What is 1st person point of view?
The character tells the story from their own direct experiences using pronouns like: I, my, me, mine.
66) What is the author's point of view?
"You cannot rely on a name. The dessert named napoleon was not invented by Napoleon Bonaparte. Rather, it was named in his honor. Brassiere did not invent a form of woman's undergarments. He only marketed them. Pythagoras was probably not the first person to discover the relationship between the sides of a right triangle. He is merely the author of the oldest reference."
a) Insightful
b) Smug
c) Distrustful
d) First person
A. insightful
A recipe from a cookbook would be considered which type of writing?
a) Expository
b) Narrative
c) Argumentative
d) Interpretive
a) expository
a _________ speech is pre-planned with an outline but not written out.
a) Impromptu
b) Manuscript
c) Extemporaneous
d) Expository
D. Expository
What is Phonemic Awareness?
The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words
What is 3rd person Omniscient?
a. Addition of feelings
b. Told from one characters perspective
c. detatched and all knowing, story is told from all characters point of view
d. all of the above
C. story is told from all characters point of view