TN Ready Blitz!- Reading/English

The night before TN ready testing, I should...

• play video games till the wee hours of the morning AND then sleep for about 15 - 30 minutes before school starts.

• get plenty of rest, so I am at my BEST!

• eat a TON of junk food.

• watch scary movies.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.5.5

What is a story's theme?

• the author
• the overall message of the story
• the setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.9

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

• conjunction
• figurative language
• theme
• evidence

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

Letters added to the beginning of a root word changing its meaning are identified as a____________________.

• compare and contrast
• inference
• prefix
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

We are depleting the Earth's reserves of oil. Someday there will not be any left. 

• using up
• adding to
• creating
• saving up

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

Grandpa was in a jovial mood, making jokes and laughing at everything. 

• crazy
• happy
• irritable
• angry

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

"My flowers were begging for water on the hot summer day" is an example of:

• antonym
• metaphor
• personification
•  hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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.4.1

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.L.3.5A