SBAC ELA

What is 'author's purpose'?

• To prepare and examine

• To persuade, inform, or entertain the reader

• To publish and make money

• To discuss and argue

What does 'expository' mean?

• Telling a story

• Using your imagination

• Giving information

• Drawing a picture

What does 'summarize' mean?

• To restate the important ideas in the text in a few sentences

• To retell your favorite parts

• To restate as much as you can remember from the text

• To give your honest opinion of the text you read

What does the word 'revise' mean?

• To make changes or edit

• To keep things exactly as they are

• To write a summary of the text

• To read the text for the first time

What does the word 'previous' mean?

• What came before

• What came after

• What comes next

• An important event in the story

A 'setting' is...

• Where the story takes place

• When the story takes place

• Both when and where the story takes place

• An important event in the story

What is a 'stanza'?

• A paragraph in a narrative

• A group of lines in a poem

• A section in an article

• The last part of an essay

What is a 'topic'?

• The summary of the text

• The ending of a text

• The subject of the text

• A key detail from the text

What does 'NON-FICTION' mean?

• Writing that is based on imagination and creativity

• Writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people

• Writing that has made-up characters and storylines

• Writing that could never happen in real life

What does 'subjective' mean?

• Based on feelings

• Not based on feelings

• What others think

• What I should think