4th Six Weeks Test Review/Example Questions for ELA-R
TEST DATE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH
Name:_______________________________________________________#___________
Date: ________________________________________________________
Reading: MAKING CONNECTIONS
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It is important to make connections to ___________________________ so we may
read, analyze, and comprehend what we read.
Text to Self: Connects what you’re are reading to your _______________________
Text to World: Connects what you’re reading to the world’s
_______________________ or situations
Text to Text: Connects what you’re reading to another __________________ or text
EXAMPLE QUESTION: Read the passage below from The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by
Daniel M. Pinkwater.
Nobody in Arthur Bobowicz’s family really liked turkey. Certainly, the kids didn’t
like it as much as chicken or duck. They suspected that Momma and Poppa didn’t like it
very much either. Still, they had a turkey every Thanksgiving, like almost every family in
Hoboken. “Thanksgiving is an important American holiday,” Poppa would say, “You kids
are Americans, and you ought to celebrate important American holidays. On
Thanksgiving, you eat turkey. Would you want people to think you were ungrateful?”
How do you connect to this passage?
Text to Self
Text to World
Text to Text
Choose one and explain why? <<<Be able to write how you connect to what you read.
Space left to practice writing here:
Reading: VISUALIZATION
 Visualization is creating a ____________________________________ in your mind
using clues and descriptive language from the story ____________ you read.
 EXAMPLE QUESTION: Read the short sentence below from The Bad Case of the Stripes by
David Shannon.
Camilla Brown had a bad case of the stripes that looked like a rainbow.
Draw and color what you are visualizing. Space left here to practice drawing.
Reading: MAKING INFERENCES
 Authors of books don’t always tell you everything about characters and events.
Therefore, readers have to use __________________________ clues and
_________________________ to make an ____________________________________.
 Schema is your background ______________________________________________.
 EXAMPLE QUESTION: Read the short passage below.
Katie slammed her math textbook closed and crumpled up the piece of paper she was
working on. “Ugh!” she said.
Based on this passage, what can you infer about Katie?
A. Katie enjoys math.
B. Katie is having difficulty with math.
C. Katie has finished her math homework.
D. None of the answers are correct.
Reading: THEME
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The theme is the message or _______________________________________ the
author wanted you to take away from the story.
 EXAMPLE QUESTION:
There are many themes in The BFG by Roald Dahl. One theme could be:
A. Take care of the environment.
B. Be careful what you wish for.
C. Don’t judge a book by its cover.
D. None of the answers are correct.
Reading: POINT OF VIEW
 _________________________________ Person Narration:
o Told by ONE character IN the story.
o Narrator usually relates his/her personal views.
o Narrator uses words like: I, me, we, us
 _________________________________ Person Narration:
o Told by a narrator OUTSIDE the story.
o Narrator uses words like: he, she, it, they, them
o Two Types:
 Third Person LIMITED: Narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of ONE
character. (EXAMPLE: Bunnicula – Chester)
 Third Person OMNISCIENT: Narrator knows thoughts and feelings of ALL
characters. (EXAMPLE: The BFG – knows what the BFG, Sophie, the Queen,
etc. are thinking and feeling.)
 EXAMPLE QUESTION: Read the passage below from Stuart Little by E.B. White.
When Mrs. Frederick C. Little’s second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was
not much bigger than a mouse. The truth of the matter was, the baby looked very much
like a mouse in every way. He was only about two inches high; and he had a mouse’s
sharp nose, a mouse’s tail, a mouse’s whiskers, and the pleasant, shy manner of a
mouse. Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like
one, too – wearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane. Mr. and Mrs. Little named him
Stuart, and Mr. Little made him a tiny bed out of four clothespins and a cigarette box.
What is the Narrator’s point of view?
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B.
C.
D.
First Person Narration
Third Person: Limited Narration
Third Person: Omniscient
Both B and C are correct.
Reading: INFORMATIONAL TEXT
 Informational texts:
o Are organized around a specific _____________________________
o Have text features to organize information
o Provide information that is TRUE
o Also known as ______________________________________ texts
o Purpose is to ________________________________ or explain
 EXAMPLE QUESTION:
What is the purpose of informational texts?
A. To persuade
B. To tell a story
C. To give an opinion
D. To inform or explain
Reading: TEXT STRUCTURES
 Text structure refers to how the informational text is
________________________________________________ or structured.
 Types:
o Chronological Order/Sequence
o Compare and Contrast
o Cause and Effect
o Problem and Solution
o Description
 EXAMPLE QUESTION: Read the following sentence.
If you ice cream melts before you can finish it, put it back in the freezer.
This sentence is an example of what kind of text structure?
A. Compare and Contrast
B. Chronological Order/Sequence
C. Description
D. Problem and Solution
Writing: SENTENCE STRUCTURE – EDITING AND REVISING
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS:
1. What are the two parts of a sentence?
A. Noun and verb
B. Subject and predicate
C. First and last
D. Parts of speech and punctuation
2. Read the sentences below. Which sentence is a complete sentence?
A. The skateboarder was.
B. The President of the United States of America.
C. Into the theater.
D. Tim was late for soccer practice.
3. Read the sentence below.
The Olympic skier entered the gate.
What is the subject in this sentence?
A.
B.
C.
D.
entered the gate
Olympic skier
the gate
None of these answers are correct.
4. Read the sentence below.
His skis scraped the icy slope.
What is the predicate in this sentence?
A.
B.
C.
D.
His skis
scraped
scraped the icy slope
icy slope
5. Read the sentence below.
A storm _____________________ ruin the fishing trip!
What helping word would make sense in this sentence?
A. will
B. was
C. have
D. is
6. Read the sentence below.
Sleeping is important for good health.
What is the subject or activity word in the sentence?
A. important
B. sleeping
C. good
D. is
7. Which sentence(s) uses the correct capitalization and punctuation?
A. jake walked to school with his pet turtle on his head he wore a green cap
B. Jake walked to school with his pet turtle on his head. He wore a green cap.
C. Jake walked to school with his pet turtle. On his head, he wore a green cap.
D. Jake walked to school. With his pet turtle on his head he wore a green cap.
8. Read the sentence below.
on april 10 1912 the titanic set sail for new york
What is the best way to edit the sentence?
A. On april 10, 1912, the Titanic set sail for New York.
B. On April 10 1912 the Titanic set sail for New York
C. On April 10, 1912, the titanic set sail for new york.
D. On April 10, 1912, the Titanic set sail for New York.
9. What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?
“Hurry!” yelled Benjamin.” He knew Mom would have dinner ready.
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B.
C.
D.
Delete the exclamation point after Hurry
Delete the quotation mark after Hurry
Delete the quotation mark after Benjamin
Make no change
10. Which is the correct transition to insert before the second sentence?
The new style of novel was filled with pictures and speech bubbles. The books
were called graphic novels.
A.
B.
C.
D.
In contrast,
Similarly,
Soon,
On the other hand,
11.What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?
Joe and Sam took the biggest box of breakfast cereal off the shelf and put it in
there shopping cart.
A.
B.
C.
D.
change there to their
insert a comma after cereal
change took to taken
No change is needed.
12.What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?
Megans hat blew off her head and away with the wind.
A.
B.
C.
D.
change Megans to Megans’
change Megans to Megan’s
change blew to blowed
No change is needed.
She made a vase out of clay.
The clay was red.
13.Which of these best combines the two sentences?
A. She made a vase out of red clay.
B. She made a vase out of clay, and the clay was red.
C. She made a red vase out of clay.
D. She made a vase out of clay, the clay was red.
Writing: EXPOSITORY WRITING
Review your assignment “Using Information to create Well-Developed Paragraphs-1” where
you are given the main idea sentence: Ice cream is made with a wide variety of ingredients.
Review your writing sample. You will be asked to write one paragraph with a main idea
sentence and at least 4 details based on the facts you are given. It will be just like the ice
cream paragraph but a different topic.