7th Grade-EOG PREP

February 2011

Standard 4

• When participating in guided reading, what information does your teacher often give you that helps in comprehension?

• A. a time limit • B. a speed to read • C. definitions of every word • D. a purpose for reading

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• D-A Purpose for reading• Guided reading is when the teacher works

with an individual student or a group of students to listen to them read and provides specific support that helps them use strategies to decode and comprehend text

Standard 5

• Which of the following questions should a reader ask if they want to identify the setting of a story?

• A. Who is the main character of this story? • B. Where and when is this story taking place?

• C. What is the major conflict of this story? • D. What is the overall theme of this story?

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• B. Where and when is this story taking place?• Setting - The place or location of the action,

the setting provides the historical and cultural context for characters. It often can symbolize the emotional state of characters.

Standard 4

• Which of the following would be considered an autobiography?

• A. Up the River: James Henry's Life on the Riverboats by Stan Howard

• B. Can You See It Now? The Story of Helen Keller by Emma Stooksbury

• C. Roberto Clemente by Vera Clemente • D. Martin Luther King, Jr.: My Story by Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• D. Martin Luther King, Jr.: My Story by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• An autobiography is a story about a person’s life told by that person themselves.

Standard 5• Tonya is taking a beginning knitting class after

school at the community center. She has learned the basics and is ready to start on a new project. Tonya’s aunt was going to take the class with her, but her aunt just had a new baby and doesn’t have time. What do you think Tonya will choose to knit?

• A. a baby blanket • B. a potholder • C. a scarf• D. a sweater

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• A. a baby blanket• The importance of this passage is to use

context clues to come up with your answer.• The clues in the text that help with the

selection of a best answer is that Tonya’s aunt just had a baby.

Standard 4

• How does the omniscient point of view help you to get a complete picture of all the characters?

• A. This point of view helps the reader step into the role of the main character, the most important character.

• B. This point of view permits the reader to see the character and events through the eyes of a minor character.

• C. This point of view permits the reader to know the thoughts and motives of all the characters.

• D. In this point of view, the narrator is speaking directly to the reader.

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• C. This point of view permits the reader to know the thoughts and motives of all the characters.

• With omniscient point of view, unlike the other points of view, the speaker is not a character in the story.

Standard 5• The trial of the century was about to begin and I was a

witness. I would tell the judge everything that happened and answer the questions honestly. I need to remind myself - just the facts - when I answer the questions.

• If you were asked, "Did you see the woman with her luggage opened?" which of the following responses includes an opinion?

• A. Yes, I thought her bag was ugly. • B. No, I did not see her bag opened. • C. Yes, I did see her bag opened. • D. Yes, I saw her bag.

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• A. Yes, I thought her bag was ugly.• Facts can be proven.• Opinions are based on your thoughts, ideas,

and how you feel about things.• The bag may have been ugly to you but I am

sure that the woman who bought the bag did not think that it was ugly.

Standard 4

• Which of these words, found in both The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, reveals a particular time period in which the story was written?

• A. December • B. visitor • C. ghost • D. chamber

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• D. chamber• Think of time periods like the generations in your

family. For example your grandparents listened to 8 tracks and records while you listen to iPods and mp3 players.

• The month December is the same for every generation, a visitor and a ghost have been present in stories dating back to the B.C.’s, but a chamber is what a room use to be called during a certain time period.

Standard 5

• The form of literature that contains: actors, scenes, lines and sometimes narrators is a__________________.

• A. poem • B. myth • C. play • D. novel

Take Time To Think

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answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• C. play• Plays contain actors, scenes, lines and

sometimes narrators.

Standard 4

• Why is it good to read many different types of texts?

• A. You will always get bored from reading the same type of text.

• B. You will expand your vocabulary. • C. You will not ever learn anything new. • D. You will look very smart to people watching

you read.

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• B. You will expand your vocabulary.• You can easily choose the correct answer for

this question because options A,C, and D are opinions while B is a fact.

Standard 5• What genre is represented in the following excerpt? • Question: What is Nature Web?

Answer: Nature Web is an after school program developed by the McFarlane Nature Center. Question: What is the goal of the program? Answer: Our goal is to help students and their parents learn more about the plant and animal life around them.

• A. an interview • B. dialogue in a play • C. a science textbook • D. a book about spiders

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• A. an interview• It couldn’t be B because there are no

characters.• It couldn’t be C because there are answers to

the questions.• It couldn’t be D because the excerpt doesn’t

say anything specifically about spiders.

Standard 4• Father opened the door to our log cabin. There in the cold

darkness stood a stranger dressed in buckskins carrying a long rifle. After questioning the man, Father invited him inside for a hot meal. After long conversation before the fire while Mother prepared a meal, I discovered the stranger was a good storyteller. I couldn't wait for him to finish eating to hear the story of his travels through the mountain. In this passage the author is

• A. afraid of the stranger. • B. happy to see the stranger. • C. anticipating hearing the stranger's story. • D. suspicious of the stranger.

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• C. anticipating hearing the stranger's story.• You can infer this answer by using the context

clues given in the passage.“ I discovered the stranger was a good

storyteller. I couldn't wait for him to finish eating to hear the story of his travels through the mountain.”

Standard 5

• What is the correct way to complete this haiku? Slowly he looked upThe bird flew across the sky

• A. The shadow blocking the sunlight • B. Over his house • C. Wings touching the Sun • D. He looks and wonders why

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• C. Wings touching the Sun• A Haiku has a rhyme scheme of 5-7-5• In other words the first line contains 5

syllables• The second line contains 7 syllables• The third line contains 5 syllables

Main Idea• What is a mortgage? A mortgage is a particular kind of a loan.

When someone takes out a mortgage, they get money to buy a house. They must pay the money back, plus interest. Usually people make a mortgage payment once each month. The house is collateral on the loan. That means that, if the payments aren't made, the bank can take the house. In fact, the bank holds the deed to the house until the mortgage is paid.

The main idea in this passage is:

A. a definition of the word mortgage B. information about buying a house C. pros and cons of buying a house D. a definition of the word collateral

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• A. a definition of the word mortgage• Usually the first sentence of a paragraph

introduces the topic or the main idea of the paragraph. The first sentence of this paragraph asks what a mortgage is.

Context Clues w/ examples

• A colossus, such as the Statue of Liberty, can be seen for miles around.

-Using the example clue, the word colossus in this sentence means A. huge statue B. torch C. airplane D. woman

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• A. huge statue• The example given for the word colossus is

the Statue of Liberty.• The word colossus is similar to the word

colossal meaning huge.

Cause and Effect-Fill in the blank• Tom frowned at the dark thunder clouds. They

had watered the lawn well for two days now. Tom could almost hear the grass growing outside. He groaned to himself. If Saturday's weather was clear, he would have to mow it all.

Why did Tom frown?

What made the grass grow so fast?

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• Why did Tom frown? He didn't want the grass to keep growing. He didn't want to mow it.

• What made the grass grow so fast?The rain.

Fact or Opinion

• 1. Sleeping in a tent is the best part of camping.

• 2. Elizabeth volunteers at the library twice a month.

• 3. Dad sent Mom two dozen roses for Valentine's Day.

• 4. A statement ends with a period. • 5. Skipping rocks across the pond is more fun

than playing baseball.

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• 1.    opinion    Sleeping in a tent is the best part of camping. 2.    fact    Elizabeth volunteers at the library twice a month. 3.    fact    Dad sent Mom two dozen roses for Valentine's Day.

• 4.    fact    A statement ends with a period.

• 5.    opinion    Skipping rocks across the pond is more fun than playing baseball.

Summarizing• People wear jeans all the time. These pants are tough and long-

lasting. They are casual. Many people find them comfortable. They seem like they've been around forever. Actually, Levi Strauss came up with the idea during the California Gold Rush. He had traveled west to make a fortune, but not by searching for gold. Instead he brought tent cloth with him and he planned to sell tents to the workers in the gold mines. He changed his mind, though, when he saw the workers needed good strong work pants. So he made some for them by using the tent cloth and bolting it together with tiny pieces of metal. He sold the jeans for one dollar a pair and the workers nicknamed the pants Levi.

Who is this story about?

What did Levi Strauss do?

Take Time To Think

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answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• Who is this story about?     Levi Strauss     What did Levi Strauss do?     He invented the first jeans.     

Idioms•                         Beat around the Bush

Frank was worried. He went to tell his father that he didn't do too well on a test he had taken. "I have something to tell you," Frank said to his father. "I...well, I mean, I need...Do you...""Please don't beat around the bush," said his father. "Just tell me. You know you can tell me anything."

Beat around the bush means: A. hit the bushes in front of your house B. have trouble saying something C. coming right out and saying something

D. Beat someone while running around the bush

Take Time To Think

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answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• B. have trouble saying something• An idiom is a fixed expression with nonliteral meaning: a fixed distinctive expression whose meaning cannot be deduced from the combined meanings of its actual words

Inferences

• The goose swam quickly. She gathered her goslings. "Swim quickly, babies. We must get away from the alligator." The goose and goslings swam like torpedoes to safety.

Where are the geese?

What other animals could be in this location?

Take Time To Think

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answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• Where are the geese?     in a pond with an alligator     

• What other animals could be in this location?     will vary, could include ducks, snakes, frogs, fish, etc.     

Drawing Conclusions• Grandpa was telling a story of a time when he was in the U.S. Navy

and stationed in Hawaii. He said it was December 1941, when he heard airplanes overhead. The airplanes turned out to be Japanese aircraft that had just staged a sneak attack on the Hawaiian Islands.You can guess that ___.

• A. Grandpa is remembering his time in World War II

• B. Grandpa is remembering a movie he watched about war

• C. Grandpa is remembering his time in World War I• D. Grandpa is Japanese

Take Time To Think

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answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• A. Grandpa is remembering his time in World War II

• World War II was during 1941 and includes the fact that the Japanese dropped bombs on the Hawaiian Islands. This question would require previous knowledge of these facts.

Simile

• After doing my chores, the house was as clean as a whistle.

The simile clean as a whistle means that:• A. The house was not clean at all.• B. The house was very clean.• C. The house was falling apart.• D. The house made a noise.

Take Time To Think

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answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• B. The house was very clean.• A simile compares two unlike things

(house/whistle) using the words like or as.

Metaphor

• Mike's mind was a computer; he knows just about everything.

The metaphor mind was a computer means that:• A. Mike had no thoughts.• B. Mike was very smart.• C. Mike's face was square.• D. Mike was not smart.

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• B. Mike was very smart.• A metaphor compares things by saying that

one thing IS another (Mike’s brain/computer).• This comparison could be made because we

put information into our brains like we do a computer; however, our brain does not have keys like a keyboard and it is not square.

Multiple Meaning Words• 1. Mom picked the font closest to her

handwriting for her scrapbooking page.

• A. The font was a beautiful basin filled with baptismal water.

• B. The godparents held the baby near the baptismal font.

• C. I still needed to choose a standout font for my project.

• D. The font was overflowing.

Take Time To Think

• Did you choose the best answer?• Did you fully read the question and all

answers carefully?

Answer and Explanation

• C. I still needed to choose a standout font for my project.

• Using context clues we can figure out that the font they were referring to was the font you use for typing. The context clue that would be used would be handwriting.