Question Stems ELA

What description best recounts the poem?  What does the the word recounts mean as used here?

• to add details
• to choose the best one
• to tell in detail or to give the facts
• to tell a story

Which sentence from the passage best describes the cowboy?  What does the word describes mean?

• to remember
• to back up your answer
• to write what something is
• to tell or show with written words; use facts or details

Which detail from the passage explains why animals play?  What does the word explains mean?

• to give the best answer
• to make clear or understandable to others
• to prove a point
• right from the text

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

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

How does the description of the playful cat support that the cat was happy?  Define support.

• to combine what you know with what you read
• to choose a piece from the text
• to decide something based on what you read
• to back up your answer with proof or evidence

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

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

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

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

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