ELA Common Assessment 2 Study Guide 23-24

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What is dialogue?

Back

Character thinking and talking

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Why do authors use dialogue?

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To show character feeling and thoughts in detail

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What is a main idea?

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The big idea of the story

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How do you make sure a detail supports the main idea?

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Find a detail that helps build the main idea in the passage.

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How do you make an inference?

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You put supporting clues from the passage together to make your best guess

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Which song lyric has a word that means "shines, twinkles, glitters, etc?"

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Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

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How do you draw a conclusion from what you read in a text?

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You read the text and put the key details you've read together to draw a conclusion

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What is a 3 words idiom that means you tell a secret you were supposed to keep?

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spill the beans

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Which detail does NOT match the setting like the rest of the text? It mesmerizes the eyes to gaze at the beautiful creatures that hover all over the beach and on the deep-sea waters. There are sights of beautiful birds that fly all over the snowy, iced over shore and over the sea waters. Their colored feathers brightened the sea with a marvelous appearance at their illumination by the sun’s rays. There are varieties of birds that are in the vicinity. For instance, there are pelicans and seagulls. Pelicans are seen hovering over the sand, singing sweet melodies that make the atmosphere at the beach vibrant. The seagulls are also observed to be flying over the seawater in small groups. Some of the birds are gathered in groups spreading the wings that cloaked a soft shadow on the gentle water ripples. Options: sea with a marvelous appearance at their illumination by the sun’s rays, over the snowy, iced over shore and over the sea waters , that cloaked a soft shadow on the gentle water ripples., eyes to gaze at the beautiful creatures that hover all over the beach

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over the snowy, iced over shore and over the sea waters

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Revise the narrative introduction for a trip to the zoo.

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I was really excited for my field trip to the zoo.