ELA Common Assessment 2 Study Guide 23-24

What is dialogue?

• Character thinking and talking

• Character appearance

• The problem in the story

• Place and time of the story

Why do we use dialogue as authors?

• To show times and places where characters are speaking

• To show character feeling and thoughts in detail

• To show what is going to happen next

• To show how the character acts.

What is a main idea?

• the supporting details of the story

• The lesson of the story

• Facts in the story

• The big idea of the story

How do you make sure a detail supports the main idea?

• Find a detail you agree with

• Find the detail that sounds the smartest

• Find a detail that helps build the main idea in the passage

• Find the main idea

How do you make an inference?

• You find the inference in the passage

• It's the main idea

• You put supporting clues from the passage together to make your best guess

Which song lyric has a word that means "shines, twinkles, glitters, etc?"

• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
  With every Christmas card I write

• Where the treetops glisten
  And children listen
  To hear sleigh bells in the snow

• Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jack frost nipping at your nose

• I don't know just who
  to blame for this catastrophe!
  But my one wish on Christmas Eve
  is as plain as it can be!

How do you draw a conclusion from what your read in a text?

• With paper and pencil

• You look at the main idea ad that is your conclusion

• You read the text and put the key details you've read together to draw a conclusion

What is a 3 words idiom that means you tell a secret you were supposed to keep:

What is a common figurative phrase people use when they feel sick?

​ (a)  

• sick as a dog
• the cat is out of the bag
• break a leg
• gonna hurl

Match the following verb meanings

• move

• tinker

• tease

• transfer

• repair

• taunt