AIR Review Quiz

The sentence in an essay that provides the "road map" for your writing is called a ____________.

• Topic Sentence

• Elaboration Sentence

• Thesis Statement

• Conclusion Sentence

True of False: If you run out of time on the essay, try to complete as many paragraphs as best you can.

• True

• False

The three main Author Points of View are: Inform, Entertain, and _________

• Fun

• Persuade

• Answer

• Relate

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What does the word "coax" mean as it is used in the following sentence?

"Most of the baby pigs love the mud, but if one is a little shy, the farmer will gently coax the baby into a small puddle and scoop mud on it, to make it feel comfortable".

• allow

• trick

• persuade

• squeeze

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Guessing may rarely work, so a better strategy for a multiple choice question that you don't know the answer to is to _________________.

• guess anyway

• try and eliminate answer choices as best you can

• make up something

• skip it

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

The last paragraph, which will wrap up your essay is called the ________________ Paragraph.

• Body

• Thesis

• Conclusion

• Introduction