Test Prep ELA

What is a narrative

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• The part of a narrative that introduces the setting, characters, and problem

• To make changes that correct or improve

• A story, description, or account of events

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

What is evidence?

• Information from a text that can be used to support ideas, arguments, opinions, and thoughts

• The materials from which the writer gathers ideas and information

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• What one thinks about something or somebody; viewpoint

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

What is main idea?

• Information from a text that can be used to support ideas, arguments, opinions, and thoughts

• The most important point of the message the author wants to share

• An idea of conclusion that is drawn from evidence and reasoning

• The part of a narrative that provides and solution and closure

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What is an introduction?

• What one thinks about something or somebody; viewpoint

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• The most important point of the message the author wants to share

• The part of a narrative that introduces the setting, characters, and problem

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

What is a conclusion?

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• The part of a narrative that introduces the setting, characters, and problem

• The part of a narrative that provides and solution and closure

• An idea of conclusion that is drawn from evidence and reasoning

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

What is a transition?

• An idea of conclusion that is drawn from evidence and reasoning

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• The most important point of the message the author wants to share

• A story, description, or account of events

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is an inference?

• An idea of conclusion that is drawn from evidence and reasoning

• What one thinks about something or somebody; viewpoint

• To make changes that correct or improve

• The part of a narrative that provides and solution and closure

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

In Passage 2, what does the author mean by saying the roses “were like little trees”? (paragraph 11)

• The rosebushes have thick trunks.

• The rosebushes are tall enough to climb.

• The rosebushes have large, long branches

• The rosebushes are more leaves than flowers.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Which excerpt from Passage 1 helps explain why Jess changed his mind about the forest?

• “‘I used to think this place was haunted,’ Jess had confessed to Leslie the first afternoon he had revved up his courage to bring her there.

• ‘Oh, but it is,’ she said. ‘But you don’t have to be scared. It’s not haunted with evil things.’

• ‘How do you know?’

  ‘I can just feel it. Listen.’

• At first he heard only the stillness. It was the stillness that had always frightened him before, but this time it was like the moment after Miss Edmunds finished a song, just after the chords hummed down to silence.”

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the theme of Passage 1?

• Nature can have a powerful effect on people.

• Children need friends who can keep secrets.

• People can find interesting things in forests.

• Children often benefit from being quiet.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7