Understanding & Decoding Test Questions

What is the question asking you to do?

Which answer best reveals the author's main purpose?

• Choose the answer that shows the main problem of the article.

• Choose the answer that explains what the author's main reason for writing the article.

• Choose the answer that tells why people like to read.

• Choose the answer that infers why the author is smart.

What is the question asking you to do?

Which statement best expresses the central conflict of the story?

• Choose the answer that is best able to show how the characters get along in the story.

• Choose the answer that is best able to show the author's reason for writing the story.

• Choose the answer that is best able to show the main problem in the story.

• Choose the answer that does not show the main problem in the story.

What is the question asking you to do?

Which sentence best expresses the main idea of the article?

• Choose the answer that best explains the main topic of the article.

• Choose the answer that best explains the supporting details in the article

• Choose the answer that does not explain what the article is about.

• Choose the answer that best explains the author's purpose.

What is the question asking you to do?

Which phrase best describes the main character from the passage?

• Choose the sentence that best summarizes the story.

• Choose one word that describes the main character

• Choose the sentence that explains the plot of the story.

• Choose the sentence that best describes the main character.

What is the question asking you to do?

Based on paragraph 7, readers can conclude...

• Choose the answer that shows your understanding of paragraph 7.

• Choose the answer that is a conclusion paragraph.

• Choose the answer that summarizes the plot.

• Choose the answer that shows your understanding of the main idea of the article.

What is the question asking you to do?

Which argument does the author use to suggest that climate change is real?

• Choose the answer that best describes that why the author is a scientist.

• Choose the answer that describes the author's opinion/belief that climate change is real.

• Choose the answer that describes the author's opinion/belief that climate change is not real.

• Choose the answer that best describes the purpose of the article.

What is the question asking you to do?

Which statement from the article implies the author was a successful student.

• Choose the sentence that shows the author did not do well in school.

• Choose the sentence that shows the main idea of the article.

• Choose the sentence that shows the author's opinion about homeschooling.

• Choose the sentence that shows evidence the author was a good student.

What is the question asking you to do?

What paragraph best represents the main topic from the article?

• Choose the paragraph number that shows the main problem in the story.

• Choose a phrase that explains the definition of the words, main topic.

• Choose a phrase from the article that shows the author's purpose.

• Choose the paragraph number that best shows the main topic of the article.

What is the question asking you to do?

Which sentence best expresses an important message in both articles?

• Choose the answer that best shows how the articles are similar and different.

• Choose the answer that summarizes both articles

• Choose the answer that explains the topic of both articles.

• Choose the answer that best shows what message or idea both articles have in common.

What is the question asking you to do?

In paragraph 5, which words help the reader understand the word perspective?

• Choose the answer that shows the context clues from paragraph 5, that help you understand the meaning of perspective.

• Choose the answer that explains the meaning of the word paragraph.

• Choose the answer that shows the context clues, from anywhere in the article, that help you understand the meaning of perspective.

• Choose the answer that explains the definition of perspective.