6th grade Ela review

6th grade Ela review

By Marrisia Strickland

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the passage?

The lights on tall communication towers warn pilots to avoid the towers when flying at night. Unfortunately, the steady red lights often used on towers have the opposite effect on birds: the bright beams attract and confuse them. Instead of avoiding the lights, the birds fly directly toward them, crashing into the towers or becoming entangled in power lines. Millions of birds have died this way. However, there is a solution. Unlike steady lights, flashing or blinking lights don't attract birds. In response to demands from conservation groups, the Federal Aviation Administration in 2016 began requiring communication towers in the U.S. to use blinking lights instead of steady ones.

• To save birds, communication towers have begun using blinking lights.

• Birds are attached to the steady red lightson communication towers

• Not here

• None of the Above

Multiple Choice

We went to the basketball, and had dinner afterwards. Choose the best answer to correct the sentence above. 

• We went to the basketball game and had dinner afterwards. 

• We went to the basketball game and we had dinner afterwards. 

• We went to the basketball game, and we had dinner afterwards. 

• The sentence is correct as is. 

Multiple Choice

Which words indicate that a passage is structured in chronological order? 

• consequently, effect, cause, because, therefore, so

• next, first, finally, then, second, followed by, after

• the question is, problem, one answer is, solution

• different from, similar to, on the other hand, compared with, as well as

Multiple Choice

What is the author’s purpose in writing this piece of text?

The planet with the most moons in the Solar System is Jupiter, with a total of 63 confirmed moons (as of 2009). Of course, it’s always possible that more moons will be discovered orbiting Jupiter in the future, and that number will go up.

Eight of Jupiter’s moons are regular satellites, with 4 large, spherical moons, and 4 smaller moons that orbit closer to Jupiter. Jupiter has an additional 55 tiny irregular satellites.

The planet with the second highest number of moons is Saturn, with 61 moons. With such a close total, more moons could easily be discovered circling the rings planet, and push its total higher.

The next planet with a high number of moons is Uranus, with 27 known moons.

This is followed by Neptune with 13 moons, Mars with 2 moons, and the Earth with its single moon.

Mercury and Venus have no moons. Although Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, it does have a total of 3 moons.

Earth has only one, but our moon has a big influence on the lives of humans on earth. In ancient times, people believed that moonlight could affect people’s brains. The Latin word for the moon was Luna. Words like “lunatic” and “looney” come from that idea. Many people still believe that more babies are born, and more people die when the moon is full. Scientific studies that have been done to see whether the numbers of births and deaths increase when there is a full moon show that there is no increase. The gravitational pull of the moon affects the tides in the ocean but does not seem to affect the births and deaths of people. Does the full moon cause people to fall in love? That’s another question

• to inform/expository

• for entertainment

• to persuade

• narrative

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of this passage?

As Shane Loeffler, a geology student at the University of Minnesota, was flying home from Europe, he looked down at the landscape and began to wonder what he was flying over. He realized that a plane flight would be a good opportunity for people to learn about the geological features of the earth below them. As a result of this experience, with a grant from the National Science Foundation, he created a free app called Flyover Country. The app provides users with information on natural formations, man-made features like dams, and even where fossils can be found. The features are pinpointed on a map that corresponds to the landscape below the plane.

• Shane Loeffler's experience in a plane led him to create an app that would provide information to flyers above the land below them.

• Shane Loeffler's plane flight home from Europe led him to think about the geological features of the land below him.

• None of the Above

• The correct answer is not in this question

Multiple Choice

Which words indicate that a passage is structured in problem and solution? 

• consequently, effect, cause, because, therefore, so
• next, first, finally, then, second, followed by, after
• the question is, problem, one answer is, solution
• different from, similar to, on the other hand, compared with, as well as

Multiple Choice

Which words indicate that a passage is structured in compare and contrast? 

• consequently, effect, cause, because, therefore, so
• next, first, finally, then, second, followed by, after
• the question is, problem, one answer is, solution
• different from, similar to, on the other hand, compared with, as well as

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly? 

• I dont think my dads hat will fit me. 
• I don't think my dads hat will fit me. 
• I don't think my dad's hat will fit me. 
• I don't think my dads' hat will fit me. 

Multiple Choice

Choose the correctly written sentence. 

• Susan is coming with Jon and I to the dance. 
• Susan is coming with Jon and me to the dance. 
• Susan is coming with Jon and we do the dance. 
• x

Multiple Choice

After going to the park and before we ate dinner. 
This sentence is an example of a _________. 

• fragment
• run-on
• complete sentence
• x

Multiple Choice

Choose the correctly written sentence. 

• Jon and me went to his house after school to play video games. 
• Jon and us went to his house after school to play video games. 
• Jon and I went to his house after school to play video games. 
• Me and Jon went to his house after school to play video games. 

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is written correctly? 

• Bruno Mars was born on October 8, 1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii. 
• Bruno Mars was born on October, 8, 1985 in Honolulu, Hawaii. 
• Bruno Mars was born on October 8, 1985 in Honolulu, Hawaii. 
• Bruno Mars was born on october 8, 1985, in Honolulu Hawaii. 

Multiple Choice

My cousin enjoys classical music. She enjoys jazz. She is a music major. 
How can you best combine the sentences above without needlessly repeating information? 

• My cousin, who enjoys classical music and jazz, is a music major. 
• A music major, my cousin enjoys jazz. And classical music. 
• My cousin is a music major and enjoys classical music and jazz. 
• My cousin, who enjoys music, is a classical and jazz enthusiast who majors in music. 

Multiple Choice

"Jacob watch out before you trip on the clothes and the big stack of books!"
Where are commas needed in the sentence above? 

• after Jacob and after clothes
• after clothes
• after Jacob
• after Jacob and after trip

Multiple Choice

The class has made its decision they're happy with it. 
This sentence is an example of a _________.

• fragment
• run-on
• complete sentence 
• x

Multiple Choice

What is the correct order of plot sequence?

• rising action, conflict, climax, exposition, falling action, resolution
• exposition, rising action, falling action, climax, resolution, conflict
• exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• exposition, resolution, conflict, rising action, falling action climax

Multiple Choice

Read the following run-on: 
We can go to the mall after school it will be fun. 
Which of the choices does not correct the run-on? 

• We can go to the mall after school. It will be fun. 
• We can go to the mall after school, it will be fun. 
• We can go to the mall after school; it will be fun. 
• We can go to the mall after school, and it will be fun. 

Multiple Choice

Definition of phon

• birth

• sound

• self

• shape

Multiple Choice

Definition of auto

• shape

• love

• sound

• self

Multiple Choice

Definition of gen

• birth

• sound

• self

• shape

Multiple Choice

Definition of phil

• shape

• sound

• love

• birth

Multiple Choice

morph

• shape

• sound

• self

• love

Multiple Choice

Type of conflict: character in a blizzard

• Person vs. Person

• Person vs. Self

• Person vs. Nature

• Person vs. Society

Multiple Choice

Type of conflict: going against the norms or expectations

• Person vs. Person

• Person vs. Self

• Person vs. Society

• Person vs. Supernatural

Multiple Choice

Type of conflict: wrestling with one's own thoughts and emotions

• Person vs. Person

• Person vs. Society

• Person vs. Nature

• Person vs. Self

Multiple Choice

Type of conflict: physical fight or argument between characters

• Person vs. Person

• Person vs. Society

• Person vs. Machine

• Person vs. Self

Multiple Choice

How we learn about a character; the details that help us understand a character's traits

• Characterization

• Conflict

• Onamotopoeia

• Plot

Multiple Choice

What are the two types of characterization?

• Direct and indirect

• Person vs Person and Person vs. Nature

• Simile and Metaphor

• Speech and Thoughts

Multiple Choice

What is the acronym we use for the strategies of indirect characterization?

• STELE

• SNAP

• STEAL

• SHARP

Multiple Choice

The S of STEAL stands for?

• Steal

• Sharp

• Speech

• Simile

Multiple Choice

The T in STEAL stands for

• Thoughts

• Time

• Tell

• Train

Multiple Choice

The E in STEAL stands for

• Empty

• Entropy

• Exciting

• Effect on others

Multiple Choice

The A in STEAL stands for

• Arguing

• Answers

• Actions

• Always

Multiple Choice

The L in STEAL stands for

• Looks

• Legwork

• Lethargy

• Lobotomy