Testing Terms

Analyze-

• To break down into parts

• support main/central idea

• The author’s most important idea

• To tell or show with written or spoken words

Our dog got out of the fence and was lost. Mr. Smith found the dog and repaired the fence.

• Time order

• One thing that happens causes something else to happen

• The text is organized by problem(s) and solution(s)

• Text is organized by comparing things alike and differences

Since the day Ansley Rose was born, she has been a joy. When she was a baby, we had to watch her closely to see if she would open her eyes. She loved to sleep. As she grew, Ansley Rose loved to tell jokes and dance. Today, Ansley is a high schooler at Madison Central. She enjoys writing stories and hanging out with her two best friends. Ansley is still a big fan of napping! In the future, Ansley plans on going in the medical field.

The above is an example of:

• Chronological order

• compare & contrast

• problem and solution

• Cause and effect

The Main idea is...

• the least important idea of the text

• the caption of an image

• the most important idea of the text

• the supporting details

To identify means to...

• find

• locate

• pick out

• select

• all of these

My dog got out of the fence. The girls cried because we could not find them.

• problem and solution

• chronological order

• compare & contrast

• Cause and effect

Madison Avenue is an Elementary School with 3rd-5th grades. Madison Avenue is an excellent School with high standards for learning. This is an example of...

• description

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• main idea

• chronological order

Which of the below is NOT a text structure?

• Cause and effect

• problem and solution

• description

• chronological order

• main idea

To summarize a text I would...

• Retell everything about the story

• Retell the most important parts

• identifying all details

• none of these

Mrs. Smith hates to hear the noise in the hallway. She begs the children to keep the door shut but unfortunately, they usually forget. To solve this problem, Mrs. Smith is going to start moving names when kids forget to shut the door. This is an example of...

• cause and effect

• description

• problem and solution

• Chronological order