ELA Mid-Year Review

Examples, ideas, or direct quotations from the text that support your answer...

• conjunction
• figurative language
• theme
• evidence

Using your ideas to tell the key ideas from the text...

• main idea
• comprehension
• theme
• summary

When use what you already know and evidence from the text to figure something out...

• text evidence
• summary
• passage
• inference

Crack!  Thunder struck and rain poured.  Max stared blankly out the window, trying to contain his emotions that raged like the weather.  He was beginning to lose it.  Dropping the kite from his hand, Max broke out into full sob.  His mother comforted him, "There, there, Max.  We'll just find something else to do."  She began to unpack the picnic basket that was on the counter and offered him a sandwich.  Max snapped, "I don't wanna sand-mich!"  A flash from the sky lit up the living room.  Boom!  Mom sighed.
What lines from the text support the idea that Mom and Max were going to go on a picnic?

• She began to unpack the picnic basket
• Max stares blankly out the window
• Mom offers Max a sandwich
• His mother conforted him

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RL.6.1

The big idea or lesson from a reading is called the ______________________.

• theme
• compare and contrast
• resource materials
• evidence

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is the theme of this story? 

• Necessity is the mother of invention.
• You shouldn't take things that don't belong to you.
• Respect your elders.
• Slow and steady wins the race!

What is the theme of this story? 

• Slow and steady wins the race!
• Don't be lazy. 
• We are stronger together than we are apart.
• If you try to go on your own, you will get eaten by a big fish.

During a baseball game, Tanner tried to tag a player leaving first base. When the umpire called the player out, Tanner immediately informed the umpire that he in fact did not tag the runner. Two weeks later, the very same umpire was at another one of Tanner’s baseball games. Tanner was playing short stop and tagged a runner as they approached third base. When the umpire called the player safe, Tanner didn’t say a word, but the umpire noticed the surprised look on Tanner’s face. “Did you tag the runner?” she asked Tanner. When Tanner told her that he did tag the runner, the umpire changed her decision and called the player out. The coaches and parents were furious, but the umpire stood by her decision.
What is the theme?

• You should cheat to win.
• Always work hard.
• It pays to be honest.
• Teamwork is best.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

The theme is a lesson learned; the moral of the story.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

How a person is on the inside...

• character
• character trait
• opinion
• theme