ELA Strategies Review

What do you need to make an inference?

• Background knowledge and text clues

• Only background knowledge

• Only text clues

• Personal opinions and assumptions

What is the 1st R in RUNRAP?

• Read the questions

• Review the answers

• Understand the context

• Note the keywords

What are context clues?

• Hints found within a text that help readers understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.

• Words that are difficult to understand without a dictionary.

• Sentences that provide a summary of the text.

• Visual aids that accompany the text.

What is visualization in reading?

• Creating mental images of the text while reading.

• Reading without understanding the text.

• Summarizing the text in your own words.

• Memorizing the text word for word.

What is the main idea of a text?

• The main idea is the central point or message that the author wants to convey.

• The main idea is the title of the text.

• The main idea is the conclusion drawn by the reader.

• The main idea is the first sentence of the text.

If you do not know the answer to a question, what should you do?

• You should skip the question entirely.

• You should eliminate bad choices, then guess from remaining choices.

• You should ask someone else for the answer.

• You should choose the first option that comes to mind.

What is a theme in literature?

• A theme is the underlying message or lesson that can be learned from a story.

• A theme is the main character's journey throughout the story.

• A theme is the setting where the story takes place.

• A theme is the sequence of events that make up the plot.

What are traits in a story?

• Descriptive adjectives that tell you what a character is like.

• The main events that occur in the plot.

• The setting and time period of the story.

• The moral lesson conveyed by the story.

What is summarizing?

• Summarizing is the process of briefly stating the main points of a text in your own words.

• Summarizing involves rewriting a text in a longer format.

• Summarizing is the act of copying a text word for word.

• Summarizing means to analyze the text in detail.

What is a plot in a story?

• A. The main character's journey

• B. The sequence of events that make up a story.

• C. The setting where the story takes place

• D. The moral lesson of the story.