FSA Practice

What does the word contribute mean as used in the question below:

How does the graph contribute to the infomration learned in paragraph 1?

• Compare to

• Show difference

• Add to

• Take away from

What information do you need to correctly answer this type of questions.

How does the author illustrate the theme in passage one?

• Find drawngs that support the theme

• Give examples that support the theme

• Compare the theme of two stories

• Tell us the theme

What is this question asking you to do?

What theme expressed in both passage 1 and passage 2?

• Show how the two stories teach a different lesson

• Tell how the same lesson is learned in both passages

• To express how the author is feeling in one passage

• To give the main idea of both passages

What does this table match require you to do?

• To summarize the information in both passages

• To select statements that compare the type of information in each passage

• Select the statements in order of both texts.

• Compare the events in both stories

What strategy can you use to sucessfully answer this question type?

• Remeber what you learned in the passage and take a guess

• Look at the answers and think about what makes sense

• Go back in the text and find each event to correctly order them

• Take a guess

What key words should you notate in this question that will help you answer it?

Select two phrases in stanza 4 that describe the bird taking flight.

• two phrases

• stanza 4, describe, bird

• two phrases, stanza 4, bird, taking flight

• Select two phrases in stanza 4 that describe the bird taking flight.

What does the word determine mean as used in the passage?

What key details did the author give to help you determine the main idea of the passage?

• Figure out

• Text evidence

• Eliminate

Why do author's include charts in non-fiction texts?

• To make their text look prettier

• To compare quanititatve information from the passage

• To show a location of a place discussed in a text

• To show you different parts of an object/place discussed in text.

Who is the narrator of a text?

• The main character of the story

• Someone not part of the story

• The person telling the story

What are two steps to used to answer this type of question.

• Reread the paragraphs given and then answer the questions

• Reread the paragraphs given and analyze the text feature

• See what the diagram and the paragraphs have in common

• See what information is new learning in the diagram