ELA Test Prep

What is setting?

• Where and when a story takes place
• What happens in the story
• A person in the story
• The main problem in the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a character?

• A person in the story
• The main problem in the story
• An action that makes something happen
• Person telling the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What are character traits?

• What the character is like
• The message or lesson the author is trying to tell you
• What happens in the story
• Information that supports the central/main idea

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is plot?

• What happens in the story
• Where and when a story takes place
• The attitude or vibe the author has toward the subject
• Compares two things using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a narrator?

• Person telling the story
• A statement that shows how the supporting details support the main idea
• A main event during the story when the problem in the story must be solved
• What the character is like

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is a conflict?

• The main problem in the story
• A person in the story
• Lines of a poem put together like paragraphs
• Gives objects or animals the qualities of humans

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the climax?

• A main event during the story when the problem in the story must be solved
• Tell the important details of the reading passage in a few sentences
• Is the reaction that happens (after the cause)
• Information that supports the central/main idea

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is a theme?

• The message or lesson the author is trying to tell you
• The organization of a passage
• Where and when a story takes place
• Lines of a poem put together like paragraphs

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

What are supporting details?

• Information that supports the central/main idea
• Events in order of time
• A person in the story
• Compares two things using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

What is a cause?

• An action that makes something happen
• Is the reaction that happens (after the cause)
• Compares two things using like or as
• The main problem in the story

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3