Test Prep

Which detail tells you that Mrs. McCoy is hungry?

• Her eyes filling up with tears.

• She is limping around the room.

• She starts reading a book.

• Her stomach growls loudly.

Tate stamps his feet and crosses his arms.  How do you think he feels?

• joyful

• tearful

• lonely

• angry

Which is not a strategy that you should use on your test?

• Underline key words

• Skim the text

• Find Text Evidence

• Briefly write the main ideas/events

SETTING can be which of the following: (Check all that apply)

• When the story takes place

• Who is telling the story

• Where the story takes place

• The main character in the story

To tell or write what the text is mostly about is called __________________.

• Listening

• Narrating

• Plotting

• Summarizing

Ms. Hallett did not have lunch or breakfast, so she was FAMISHED by dinnertime.
Based on the sentence above, what does FAMISHED mean?

• tired

• full

• dizzy

• hungry

When you infer while reading a text, you _______________.

• judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount or value of something

• form an opinion from evidence; to reach a conclusion based on known facts.

• study or examine something in detail in order to discover more about it.

• say something that someone else has said or written using different words

The important idea or lesson repeated throughout the text.

• Plot

• Dictionary

• Theme

• Glossary

an extreme exaggeration (I told you 3,000 times to put down your phone!)

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

This refers to the person telling us the story:

• setting

• villain

• conflict

• narrator