PSSA Key Terms

What two lines from the poem support the answer? What does the word support mean?

• to give details
• to back up your answer with proof or evidence
• to give a clear answer
• to decide something based on what you read

What description best recounts the poem?  What does the the word recounts mean as used here?

• to add details
• to choose the best one
• to tell in detail or to give the facts
• to tell a story

What description best recounts the passage?  What does the the word recounts mean as used here?

• to tell in detail or to give the facts
• to choose the best one
• to identify differences
• to tell a story

Which sentence from the passage best describes the cowboy?  What does the word describes mean?

• to remember
• to back up your answer
• to write what something is
• to tell or show with written words; use facts or details

Which stanza from the poem best describes the bear?  What does the word describes mean?

• to tell/show with written words; use facts or details
• to back up your answer
• to write what something means
• to talk about

Which detail from the passage explains why animals play?  What does the word explains mean?

• to give the best answer
• to make clear or understandable to others
• to prove a point
• right from the text

Which detail from the passage explains why the girl was upset?  What does the word detail mean?

• a fact
• to add detail
• to account for
• right from the text; a piece from the text that support or help explain answers

What is the main idea in the passage?  What is this question asking you to do?

• to compare the passage to another passage
• to find the most important or central thought of the passage
• to tell the meaning of the story
• to find the authors point of view

Identify the text structure of this passage.  What is this question asking you to do?

• to identify how the author organized information in the text
• to find the most important or central thought of the text
• to retell the passage in sequence
• to find the authors point of view

How does the description of the playful cat support that the cat was happy?  Define support.

• to combine what you know with what you read
• to choose a piece from the text
• to decide something based on what you read
• to back up your answer with proof or evidence