ELA MAP Practice

Which sentence suggests that Joanna rode her bike to school?

• Joannaʼs hair was a little messy when she got to school.

• Joanna crossed three streets on her way to school.

• Joanna went four blocks on her way to school.

• Joanna had to put her helmet inside the classroom closet.

A ________ occurs when a sentence is missing a subject or a predicate. 

• Run-on

• Fragment

An easy way to fix a run-on is to split the sentence into smaller sentences using a ________.

• Period

• Comma

• Semicolon

• Question Mark

A subject is usually a ________.

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

A complete sentence has a _______ and a ______. 

• Subject, noun

• Verb, action

• Subject, predicate

• Predicate, action

Read the sentences from the passage. “Come now, Harry,” Bess said. “It certainly isn’t that complicated, is it?” Which words best express the tone created by Bess’s word choice in the sentences? Choose two answers.

• dismissive

• gloomy

• impatient

• knowledgeable

• tender

An inference uses what you already know and ______________.

• a good guess

• a main idea

• clues from the text

• supporting details

When you are asked to "cite evidence from the text" it means to _______________.

• make an inference

• try your best

• find examples from the passage

• paraphrase an answer

When characters in a story talk, it is called ____________.

• paragraphs

• speakers

• dialogue

• hashtag conversation

To summarize a text means to _________________.

• write as much of the story as possible

• state the main events

• rewrite the story

• write two or three things from the text