Test Prep Definitions ELA

What is a claim?

• An argument supported with evidence.

• An argument with two people.

• Evidence.

• An analysis.

What are context clues?

• Clues a detective needs.

• Hints to help define an unknown word or phrase.

• A definition.

• Unknown words.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

How do you find context clues? aBc

• Look at the multiple choices.

• Look at the reading.

• Look at the question.

• The sentences or lines before and after the unknown word or phrase.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The author's purpose is ____________.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What is an author's point of view?

• An author's feelings.

• An author's opinion.

• All of the above.

• What the author thinks.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What is a summary?

• A short response.

• A brief account of the main points of a text.

• An extended response.

• The beginning of a text.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is plot?

• It is an important point in the story.

• What happens in a story or text.

• It is found on a graph.

• The climax of a story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the conflict in a story?

• It's the problem.

• The exposition.

• The Rising Action.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

An inference is ...

• A specific answer.

• An important question.

• A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Convey means ....

• To write a conclusion.

• To show a conclusion.

• To communicate an idea; to make an idea understandable.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4