ELAR SKills

What is a simile?

•  A comparison of two objects using "like" or "as"
• Giving human qualities to something that isn't human
• A comparison of two objects without using "like" or "as"
• sounds that are words

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

When you see the phrase "author's purpose" on a test question, what should you be looking for?

• the answer
• using simile to express emotion
• the meaning of vocabulary in a text
• the reason why the author writes about a topic

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

What is "description"?

• taking a nap
• getting a haircut
• giving details
• author's point of view

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What is an inference?

• the main idea or summary of a story
• to suggest the truth or existence of
• to provide feedback to the reader
• making an educated assumption based on context clues

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

What does the phrase "main idea" mean?

• a summary; what the story was about
• a detailed description of a specific object
• the author's intention in the story
• the use of figurative language

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

What kinds of words need to be capitalized?

• the beginning of sentences
• names of official places 
• names of official people
• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

What is a biography

• an important event
• a fictional story
• when you write about your life
• when someone writes about your life

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What is a memoir?

• a collection of written memories
• a special type of autobiography
• a fictional story
• Both A & B

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

If you don't know the definition of a word, you would ...

• wait around until the definition appears to you in a vision
• grab a dictionary and look it up
• use your context clues and inference skills
• Both B & C

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is Main Idea?

• The solutions to problems in a story

• The steps of actions in a text in the exact order they happen

• What a paragraph or text is mostly about

• The struggle a character faces in a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2