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WorksheetsSummer School ELA Skills Review
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 1hrs 26mins
What does the MAIN IDEA of a story tell the reader?
When to eat lunch
The conflict of the story
What the story is mostly about
The universal truth, moral, or idea the author wants to express
There are several ways to determine if a snake is poisonous or not. First, poisonous snakes usually have triangular shaped heads while nonpoisonous snakes have rounded heads. Second, poisonous snakes have pupils that look like slits. Nonpoisonous snakes have pupils that are rounder. Finally, the snouts of poisonous snakes are sometimes upturned, while nonpoisonous snakes have rounded snouts.
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
Where snakes live
How to tell if a snake is poisonous or not
How poisonous snakes smell
Native Americans dried strips of meat, pounded it into a paste, and then mixed it with fat. Sometimes they added berries and sugar. Then they pressed it into small cakes. They called these cakes pemmican. Pemmican didn't spoil, and it provided lots of energy for people traveling or going hunting. Today explorers still carry and eat this food.
What is this passage mainly about?
who uses pemmican today
what can be put into pemmican
how pemmican is prepared and used
why people eat and store pemmican today
Most people think that gorillas are mean, but actually they are shy. It seems that such a huge animal with very large teeth would be aggressive. Hollywood movies help convey this image of the scary, ferocious gorilla. In fact, gorillas only attack if they are provoked. However, gorillas usually don't have to fight other animals because of their impressive size.
The author believes that:
Gorillas are misunderstood as vicious animals.
Gorillas are mean animals.
Gorillas don't like other animals.
Gorillas communicate well with other animals.
What is a theme?
a story line
the topic/subject
a lesson or moral about life
the time and place of an event
Which statement expresses a main theme of the passage?
What is the theme?
What is the theme?
An inference is...
Text evidence + what you know
Retelling a text
Making a guess without evidence
Information written directly into the text.
Water from California’s northern mountains is pumped south along a 400-mile canal through the farming communities of the Central Valley. Not only is this canal system an incredible structure, its water fuels the state’s economy. In 2006, these farms produced $31 billion-worth of food and fiber, more than any other state. By contrast, world-wide ticket sales of Hollywood movies totaled only $25 billion that year.
What inference can the reader make from this paragraph?
The author thinks it is more important to eat than go to movies.
Water is a precious resource and shouldn't be wasted on making movies.
The writer thinks moving water to the Central Valley is a good investment.
The movie industry is more important to California than farming.
In what ways can you compare the two girls?
Poison ivy and poison oak are woody plants that grow in almost any habitat and are very similar in appearance. Both poison oak and poison ivy have berrylike fruit and brown stems. But poison ivy acts more like a vine than a bush and can grow high in trees. The fruit of poison ivy is gray and smooth. On the other hand, poison oak acts more like a bush than a vine. The fruit of poison oak is hairy instead of smooth.
How are poison ivy and poison oak similar?
Both are vines
Both have hairy fruit
Both look exactly alike
Both have berrylike fruit
Poison ivy and poison oak are woody plants that grow in almost any habitat and are very similar in appearance. Both poison oak and poison ivy have berrylike fruit and brown stems. But poison ivy acts more like a vine than a bush and can grow high in trees. The fruit of poison ivy is gray and smooth. On the other hand, poison oak acts more like a bush than a vine. The fruit of poison oak is hairy instead of smooth.
How are poison ivy and poison oak different?
Poison ivy is a woody plant, but poison oak is not.
Poison ivy has smooth fruit, poison oak has hairy fruit.
Poison oak can live in almost any habitat, poison ivy cannot.
Poison oak has a brown stem and poison ivy has a green stem.
