5th Grade ELA Standards Assessment pages 253-262

What is the BEST way to support your answer about what happened in a story?

• Make a guess without looking at the text
• Use exact quotes from the story as evidence
• Ask someone else what they remember
• Write what you think might have happened

When making an inference about a character's feelings, you should:

• Only use your personal opinions
• Combine text evidence with what you already know
• Ignore what the text says completely
• Make random guesses

What does it mean to "quote accurately" from a text?

• Change some words to make it sound better
• Copy the author's exact words using quotation marks
• Write a summary in your own words
• Only use the first sentence of each paragraph

A theme is different from a main idea because it:

• Is always stated directly in the text
• Only appears in the first paragraph
• Teaches a broader lesson about life
• Is only about the main character

To find the theme of a story, you should look for:

• The longest paragraph
• Patterns and lessons that repeat throughout the story
• Only the happy moments
• The number of characters

When summarizing a story, which should you leave out?

• The main conflict
• The resolution
• Minor details that don't affect the plot
• The main character's actions

When comparing characters, which detail is MOST important to consider?

• Their hair color
• Their age
• Their responses to challenges
• The number of friends they have

What helps you understand how two events in a story are connected?

• Looking at how one event causes or influences another
• Counting the pages between events
• Only focusing on the first event
• Ignoring the sequence of events

When contrasting settings, what should you analyze?

• Only the time of day
• The key features and how they affect the story
• The number of trees mentioned
• Only the weather

What should you do when you encounter figurative language like "it's raining cats and dogs"?

• Look for actual cats and dogs
• Skip over the phrase entirely
• Think about what the phrase means symbolically
• Only focus on the word "raining"