Unit 3 Review

Unit 3 Review

To help with the unit test!

Greek and Latin Roots

Using word parts to help us figure out its meaning.

Greek and Latin Roots

• gen - race, kind

• phys - natural

• chron - time

• -ment - the act or process of

• -able - capable of

• -ist - one who has a profession

Multiple Choice

Coronavirus is a microorganism. Using Greek and Latin roots, what is the best definition of microorganism?

• a small living thing like a chihuahua

• a large living thing

• a small living thing that cannot be seen by your eye alone.

• a way to see small things.

Multiple Choice

Read the following:

"Reggie is a proponent of having year-round school. Jordan opposes this idea."

Which word is an antonym of proponent?

• opponent

• supporter

• proposal

• promoter

Narrator/Regular Point of View

Who is telling the story?

Multiple Choice

What point of view is this told from?

"At half-past nine, that night, Tom and Sid were sent to bed, as usual. They said their prayers, and Sid was soon asleep. Tom lay awake and waited, in restless impatience"

• 1st person

• 3rd person

Multiple Choice

What point of view is this passage told from?

There were six young colts in the meadow besides me; they were older than I was; some were nearly as large as grown-up horses. I used to run with them, and had great fun; we used to gallop all together round and round the field as hard as we could go.

• 1st person

• 3rd person

Text Evidence

All writing questions NEED text evidence that proves your answer correct.

Go to Wonders

You will only be doing numbers 1-7 today! Do your best and always look for evidence!

Day 2

Things you need to review before working on #'s 8 - 14

Suffixes

Look at this list of prefixes and suffixes. How can you know the meaning of the word(with the prefix or suffix) if you do not have this chart?

Look at the story and use context clues!

Multiple Select

In the story (picture on the left), why does the author include the age of Mr. Fermi so much. Choose all that apply.

• To show it is unusual it is for someone his age to be doing the things he was doing.

• To show what he did at each age.

• To show how proud Dr. Fermi is of himself.

• To show how remarkable his work truly was.

Inferencing

Take a look at the chart on the right. You may be asked to take a guess (inference) about author's point of view.

Multiple Choice

Which inference about the author's point of view is supported by the story?

• Dr. Fermi is an amazing scientist who has been doing things his whole life.

• Dr. Fermi developed the worst thing in the world by developing nuclear weapons.

• The author thinks Dr. Fermi should win a lot more awards.

• The author believes that he should not have helped America with nuclear weapons.

Author's Point of View

• Perspective/Point of view/viewpoint mean what is the author's opinion about the topic they wrote about

• Look at the character (if there is one)

• Look at what the character does

• See if there are feelings words involved.

• Look at the language involved. Is is positive or negative

Multiple Choice

Click on the image to read the paragraph. What can you infer about the author's point of view based on this paragraph?

• School uniforms are a terrible idea.

• School uniforms have lots of negative effects on children.

• School uniforms are ok.

• School uniforms should be in schools because of their benefits.

Now go do pages 8-15 on your Wonders Unit Test

Notice it says pages (not section)

When I say go work on pages, this is what I mean. Use the pages shown on the top left and not the sections indicator at the top right.

Day 3

For pages 15-20

Using Context Clues

Using words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning.

When you come across an unknown word, you can use these context clues to help you.

Multiple Choice

What does dwindling mean?

• expanding

• growing

• shrinking

Compare and Contrast Author's POV

Authors will use these to give both sides of a story or the reasons for and against the topic.

Go to Wonders and open your unit test! Complete pages 15-20

Day 4

For the Rest of the Test

Use RAP to answer writing questions.

• Answering writing questions takes more work

• Make sure to use RAP to completely answer the question.

Providing Text Evidence

• When providing text evidence to prove your answer, use the sentence frames in the picture.

• Give specific examples, not just a paragraph number

Multiple Choice

A great way to provide text evidence is to say, "I know because the author told me" or " I know because the story told me."

• True

• False

Test Taking Strategies

• Use the strategies in the chart

• Using these gives you a better chance of passing any test.

Multiple Choice

Using good test taking strategies give me the best chance of passing any test.

• True

• False