6th Grade Benchmark Review

Fill in the blank: As a reader, you must provide ________ _________ to support your inference.

• complete scantron

• good answers

• great inferences

• textual evidence

Which strategy is not a strategy used to find the meaning of an unfamiliar word?

• Synonyms

• Guessing

• Definition

• Inference

Stuart was a painter who lived from 1755 to 1828. He was known for both his talent as a painter and his charm as a person. He painted the portraits of approximately 1,000 people during his lifetime. Many distinguished and famous people sat for a portrait with him. But instead of making his subjects sit perfectly still, as was commonly practiced at the time, Stuart engaged them in interesting conversation. He wanted his subjects to feel at ease in order to capture their most natural expression and pose. Only then would Stuart paint the person. Which words from paragraph 2 help the reader understand the meaning of engaged?

• charm as a person

• sat for a portrait

• practiced at the time

• interesting conversation

What does the word annotate mean?

• interact with a text by adding notes or comments to the text in order to record significant features and/or personal commentary or reactions that may enhance one’s understanding of the text while reading

• interact with the text by drawing pictures

• interact with the text by chunking the information in your mind while reading the passage

• interacting with the text by making predictions based on the text features presented in the passage only

What is a stanza?

• a piece of figurative language

• the whole poem

• a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem

• a line in the poem

As the tidal wave of customers trickled to a stream, Mom and Dad rushed into the deli. The author includes this figurative language to show that the —

• customers come in and out of the deli at a steady pace

• new customers got wet from the firefighters’ hoses at the festival

• number of customers at the deli has become manageable

• customers are upset at first but calm by the time they leave

figurative language in which nonhuman things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities or abilities

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• figurative language

What is text features?

• is used to display a string of text using a font asset.

• The content of a text is what we want students to learn.

• are the different parts of a nonfiction or fiction text other than the main story itself.

• These include the table of contents, index, glossary, headings, bold words, sidebars, pictures and captions, and labeled diagrams

What are homophones?

• Words that have different sounds and different meanings

• Words that sound the same but have different meanings.

• Words that the same

• Words that have different sounds and different meanings

What is another way of remembering conjunctions?

• FANGIRLS

• FANBOYS

• LAPGIRLS

• TALLBOYS