Test Review. 1. Familiar 1. Something is familiar if you know it well 2. Ancestors 2. Ancestors are family members who lived before you 3. Improve 3.

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Test Review

1. Familiar 1. Something is familiar if you know it well 2. Ancestors 2. Ancestors are family members who lived before you 3. Improve 3. When you improve, you do better 4.Accept 4. To accept is to like the way things are 5.Remove 5. To remove is to take away 6.Supplies 6. Supplies are materials people need. 7.Effect 7.An effect is what happens

8. Figure out 8. When you figure out something, you learn how to do it 9. Dangerous 9. Something dangerous can harm people 10. Believable 10.Something believable can happen 11. Homeless 11. A homeless person has no place to live 12. Entire 12. Something is entire if it is complete

 Some words have more than one meaning.  To find the correct definition, you have to read the entire sentence in context.  Example: In which of these sentences does miss mean “to feel sad because something is not there”?  It’s easy to miss a fastball.  Hurry, or we will miss the movie.  When I’m away, I miss my family.

 This section involves reading a story and being able to explain parts of it.  It also involves making guesses about what the characters were thinking.  You will have to make predictions about what will happen after the story ends.

 Read “When Disaster Strikes” (pp ) and “Unwinding the Magic Thread” (pp ) again for more help with this section.

 Subject/verb agreement: (ex: The student is failing. / The students are failing.)  Capitalization: (ex: are you going to the mall after work? / Are you going to the mall after work?)  Missing words: (ex: How old you? / How old are you?)

 If you were going to write about someone in your family, what would you need to do?  How can you describe someone to your reader if the reader has never met him/her? (HINT: Be Descriptive!)  To describe someone or something, you need to answer the 5Ws (who, what, where, when, why)  Colorful words are descriptive.

 Write a paragraph about a character in a story you have read, who would you choose? Why? How would you describe this character? What did the character do in the story?