Test Taking Strategies
What can you do when you KNOW something is not the answer?
Close the eye - mark it out.
When you have a compound sentence, what should you use to COMBINE clauses?
comma AND conjunction or a semi-colon
How do you know if a story is Non-Fiction?
The events happened, it includes facts
What is the prepositional phrase?
The dog ran around the tree to beat the cat.
around the tree
What is the climax of the story?
The biggest conflict/ turning point of the story.
What should you do when they ask to look back on the story?
Ex: In paragraph 7, what is.....
Go highlight what you are looking at!
What makes up a complex sentence?
One dependent clause and one independent clause
What are ways to know if a story has a different VIEWPOINT on a topic?
It might have opinions that are different, or give different facts
What are the 3 things that an ADVERB answers?
Where, when, and how for a VERB
Poems are broken into what groups?
Stanzas and lines
What do you need to do if it asks for
- main idea
-change in characters
READ THE WHOLE STORY!!
What words add details to the nouns or verbs?
Modifiers
What do headings tell us?
What the section will be about
What is "Does not mean the same as the literal meaning"
Idioms
What are the 2 types of conflict?
(fighting with a friend, fighting with internal decisions)
External and Internal
When it asks for what word/ definition fits a word, what should you do?
Fill it in and see which makes the most sense.
Where can you find the conjunctions for a complex sentence?
In the beginning or middle. It does not have to have a comma!
What is using INFERENCE/ INFERRING in a story?
Making an educated guess
What is a fragment?
A piece of a sentence that does not make sense alone.
Characters that change in a story
Dynamic Characters
What are the parts to RACES
RESTATE the question, ANSWER the question, CITE the text, explain/evidence, and SUM it up
What do things in commas mean?
ex: The man, who stole candy earlier, wanted to return to the store.
What are the 5 text structures?
cause and effect
problem and solution
compare and contrast
sequence
description
What is the modifier in this sentence?
The girl ran down the stairs quickly and into the kitchen
Quickly
The girl quickly ran down the stairs and into the kitchen.
What things to every fiction story have?
characters, setting, plot, conflict/solution