ELA Test Prep Leap 2021

What is a central message?

• The lesson or moral
  the author wants you to learn from the story that you can take into your own life
• Clues that help you know
  the meaning of a word
• The text you are reading
• When and where a story takes place

What is a setting?

• The lesson or moral
  the author wants you to learn from the story that you can take into your own life
• Clues that help you know
  the meaning of a word
• The text you are reading
• When and where a story takes place

What is a context clue?

• The lesson or moral
  the author wants you to learn from the story that you can take into your own life
• Clues that help you know
  the meaning of a word
• The text you are reading
• When and where a story takes place

The mood of a story is...

• When and where it happens
• The main character
• The central message
• The overall feeling of a story or part of a story

Can the mood change throughout the story or book?

• Yes
• No

What does contribute mean?

• Make
• Do
• Add to something
• I have no idea

What does it mean when a character contributes to the plot of a story?

• The action of the character changes the way the events play out
• The character is mean
• The character has no purpose
• The character is the hero

What is a narrator?

• Main Character
• Villain
• Hero
• The person telling the story (The person whose eyes the story or book is told through

What are illustrations?

• the text
• the pictures 

How do illustration contribute to a story?

• They show pictures
• They can show things that happen in a story that aren't necessarily written in the text
• They entertain you