Test Prep ELA

What is a narrative

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• The part of a narrative that introduces the setting, characters, and problem

• To make changes that correct or improve

• A story, description, or account of events

What is evidence?

• Information from a text that can be used to support ideas, arguments, opinions, and thoughts

• The materials from which the writer gathers ideas and information

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• What one thinks about something or somebody; viewpoint

What is main idea?

• Information from a text that can be used to support ideas, arguments, opinions, and thoughts

• The most important point of the message the author wants to share

• An idea of conclusion that is drawn from evidence and reasoning

• The part of a narrative that provides and solution and closure

What is an introduction?

• What one thinks about something or somebody; viewpoint

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• The most important point of the message the author wants to share

• The part of a narrative that introduces the setting, characters, and problem

What is a conclusion?

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• The part of a narrative that introduces the setting, characters, and problem

• The part of a narrative that provides and solution and closure

• An idea of conclusion that is drawn from evidence and reasoning

What is a transition?

• An idea of conclusion that is drawn from evidence and reasoning

• Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• The most important point of the message the author wants to share

• A story, description, or account of events

What is an inference?

• An idea of conclusion that is drawn from evidence and reasoning

• What one thinks about something or somebody; viewpoint

• To make changes that correct or improve

• The part of a narrative that provides and solution and closure

In Passage 2, what does the author mean by saying the roses “were like little trees”? (paragraph 11)

• The rosebushes have thick trunks.

• The rosebushes are tall enough to climb.

• The rosebushes have large, long branches

• The rosebushes are more leaves than flowers.

Which excerpt from Passage 1 helps explain why Jess changed his mind about the forest?

• “‘I used to think this place was haunted,’ Jess had confessed to Leslie the first afternoon he had revved up his courage to bring her there.

• ‘Oh, but it is,’ she said. ‘But you don’t have to be scared. It’s not haunted with evil things.’

• ‘How do you know?’

  ‘I can just feel it. Listen.’

• At first he heard only the stillness. It was the stillness that had always frightened him before, but this time it was like the moment after Miss Edmunds finished a song, just after the chords hummed down to silence.”

What is the theme of Passage 1?

• Nature can have a powerful effect on people.

• Children need friends who can keep secrets.

• People can find interesting things in forests.

• Children often benefit from being quiet.