ELA Test Prep: Question Stems, Terms, & Testing Tips

What's your first and last name?

What is the central idea in the passage? What is this question asking you to do?

• to compare the passage to another passage

• to find the most important or central thought of the passage

• to tell the meaning of the story

• to find the authors point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

Identify the text structure of this passage.  What is this question asking you to do?

• to identify how the author organized information in the text
• to find the most important or central thought of the text
• to retell the passage in sequence
• to find the authors point of view

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

How are the first 4 paragraphs organized?   What does organized mean?

• to tell what the author wanted you to learn
• to tell the author's main idea
• to tell the text structure
• to identify what the first 4 paragraphs were about

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

Include explicit information from the passage.  What does explicit mean?

• using your schema
• an opinion
• your point of view
• clear, right from the text

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What is the author's argument?  What does argument mean?

• a set of reasons an author give to explain why something is correct/incorrect
• to explain why the author agrees
• to have a disagreement with the author
• when the characters don't agree on something in the text

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.SL.6.3

Cite why the bear and the lion disagreed in the passage.  What does cite mean?

• to prove why
• to compare lines in the text
• to give examples
• to quote a line or lines from the text

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Summarize the first three paragraphs.  What does summarize mean?

• to be clear about what you read
• to write about the passage
• to write in shorter form, most important parts of the text
• to write the facts from what you read

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

What can you infer from stanza 5? What does infer mean?

• combine what you know with the text to figure out what the author wants you to know

• to make a guess using what you know based on another text

• to combine what you have read and what you know

• to guess

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

What is this selection mostly about? - What is this question asking you to determine?

• A Summary

• Vocabulary

• The Central Idea

• The Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2