Test- Taking Vocabulary

If you are asked to describe something, you must ________.

• compare and contrast

• draw a conclusion

• give details about it

• analyze the sources

2. The student must decide if an answer choice is the best one.  She  _____ it. 

• eliminates

• evaluates

• justifies

• develops

3. When you think about what will happen next in a story, you are making______. 

• descriptions

• identifications

• developments

• predictions

When you are asked to compare and contrast, you must ________.

•  tell how two things are alike and different

• provide an outline

• find the main idea

• develop a summary

Which one of these is part of a summary?

• Listing all the details

• Telling the main ideas 

• Telling whether it is fact or opinion

• Comparing and contrasting

When you infer, you always ________.

• draw a conclusion based on facts

  and prior knowledge

• justify your ideas

• identify the main conflict

• create a summary

To find synonyms, you should ________.

• look for words that are near each other in the dictionary

• find the words that have opposite meanings 

• look for words that mean the same thing 

• Look for words that appeal to the 5 senses

 If you are asked to describe a character, you will write:

• the setting

• a prediction 

• adjectives

• a list of the characters in the story

 Read the question and tell what you would do first to decide the answer. 

The reader can infer from paragraph 4 that the characters Chris and Tim are both

• Compare and contrast what you remember about Chris and Tim

• Reread the story

• Go back to paragraph 4

• Think of a list of verbs and adjectives 

When asked what the theme of a story is, your answer would include:

• facts about the story

   

• the problems the characters have 

• a lesson characters learn that readers can use

• the main plot of the story (what happens)