Reading Benchmark Review

Elements of Literature Review

Text Structure

Used to organize information

Description
Compare / Contrast
Sequence of Events / Chronological
Cause / Effect
Problem / Solution

Multiple Choice

Which text structure includes signal words:
- for example
- is like
- including

• Comparison
• Description
• Sequence
• Cause and Effect

Multiple Choice

Which text structure has signal words:
-first
-now
-later
-(actual dates)

• Comparison
• Problem/Solution
• Chronological
• Cause and Effect

Multiple Choice

Which text structure includes the signal words:
-if/ then
-therefore
-becasue

• Problem/ Solution
• Cause and Effect
• Comparison
• Sequence

Multiple Choice

Which text structure includes signal words:
-both
-alike
-different
-yet

• problem and solution
• cause and effect
• comparison
• sequence

Text Features

Informational/Nonfiction

Subheading

• A subheading is a smaller title that breaks up headings into even smaller categories

Multiple Choice

The black line is pointing to which text feature?

• caption
• heading
• subheading
• diagram

Caption

Words that are usually next to or below an image, graph, or chart and describes it

Gives the reader important information about the image or chart

Multiple Choice

This feature explains what the illustration/photograph is. It tells you what you see in the picture.

• Glossary

• Index

• Table of contents

• Caption

Chart/Table

• A chart or table is an organized way to show information using rows and columns

Multiple Choice

illustrates specific points or presents information from the text in a visual way (boxes, etc)

• glossary

• charts or graphs

• title

• heading

​PLOT:  A series of events that make up a story

​Most Plots have 5 Stages:

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1. 1. EXPOSITION:  Is the first stage of plot-- the author provides important background information and introduces the setting, characters, and conflict.

Multiple Choice

What is the exposition of a story's plot?

• the most exciting part

• when problems are solved

• the beginning; characters & setting are introduced

• the problem that starts the story's action

​2. RISING ACTION:  is the 2^nd stage of plot.  In this stage, events occur that make the story’s conflict more complicated.  These events develop and intensify a story’s conflict

Multiple Choice

Interest and suspense are built during which part of the story? 

• exposition
• rising action
• climax
• falling action 

​3. CLIMAX:  is the 3^rd stage of plot. This is the story’s most exciting part and a turning point for the main character.

Multiple Choice

The _______ is the most exciting part of the story.

• exposition
• poem
• rising action
• climax

​4. FALLING ACTION: is the 4^th stage of plot. This is where the tension is eased and events start to unfold as a result of the climax.

Multiple Choice

After the climax, when problems are starting to be wrapped up...

• falling action

• rising action

• climax

• exposition

​5. RESOLUTION:  is the 5^th and last stage of plot.  It reveals how the story’s problem or conflict gets solved.

Multiple Choice

The ending when the major conflict has been wrapped up and the reader understands the theme...

• falling action

• rising action

• climax

• resolution

Multiple Choice

An inciting incident in literature is the event that sets the story in motion.

• True

• False

Figurative Language

Simile

• compares to things that are unalike using like or as

• EX: They were as happy as a dog camping

Alliteration

• the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• EX: Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore

Multiple Choice

Which one is NOT an example of alliteration? (Just for fun, try saying each one 5 times fast. Can you do it?)

• Black bug's blood

• Rubber baby buggy bumpers

• Toy boat

Onomatopoeia

naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of onomatopoeia?

• bark

• fire

• boom

Personification

• giving an inanimate object human qualities

• EX: The stars danced in the sky

Multiple Select

Which ones are examples of personification?

• See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me

• And no one knows, how far it goes

• If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me

• One day I’ll know, if I go there’s just no telling how far I’ll go

Multiple Choice

"I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed."

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"And I think to myself

What a wonderful world"

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

ECR Review

QUESTION PROMPT

​Questions to ponder:

1. What needs to be read?
2. What do we need to explain?
3. What must be remembered while writing the response?

WRITING THE INTRODUCTION AND THESIS STATEMENT

When you write an introduction, you need to start with:

1. a hook that grabs readers attention. It could be a form of question, or a bold statement,

2. and a thesis statement that states your main argument or point.

Multiple Choice

The most important sentence in your introduction is the thesis statement that gives the topic + R1 and R2

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Tomorrow is your Reading Benchmark.

• True

• False