ELA Leap Prep

When a character is speaking

• Dialogue

• Quotations

• Motivation

What the character wants or doesn't want that causes an action

• cause & effect

• motivation

• point of view

Read the sentences. “I have a good idea!” Let’s have ice cream after dinner, said Joey. Which revision corrects the punctuation mistake in the sentences?

• “I have a good idea!

• “I have a good idea! Let’s have ice cream after dinner,” said Joey.

• I have a good idea! “Let’s have ice cream after dinner,” said Joey.

• I have a good idea! Let’s have ice cream after dinner, “said Joey.”

Which book title has the correct capitalization? Lion has a loud Roar On the journey to California Monkey Fun At The Zoo Adventures in Space Travel

• Adventures in Space Travel

• Lion has a loud Roar

• On the journey to California

• Monkey Fun at The Zoo

Which sentence uses capitalization correctly?

• I am going on a trip to north carolina.

• I live on johns island.

• The man spend the night at the holiday inn.

• I am going to Folly Beach.

Author's tone refers to...

• an author's background information

• an author's perspective or attitude about a topic

• an author's writing style

• an author's choice of text structure(s)

A theme is...

• What the text is mostly about

• Message or moral of the story

• The opinion of the author

• Evidence from the text

When I make a inference I am combing

• What I read and what the text says

• What I know and the main idea

• The main idea and the theme

• What I read and my background knowledge

"A parents love is unconditional" is most likely a

• Main Idea

• Text Evidence

• Summary

• Theme

One way to figure out a word you don't know on the test is...

• Skip it

• Look for clues in the sentence