5th grade ELA
Ms. Honts
Review: How to Respond to a Prompt
Directions:
1. Annotate each question.
2. Make a list of steps you should take to completely and accurately answer the question.
3. Next to each step, write the response to that step. (Ex: Write your claim statement next to Step #1: Claim.)
1. What is a theme that is in both “Captain Hardcastle” and “The Matron”? Use two details from the stories to support your response.
Steps / Response1. Find a theme for both stories.
2. Compare themes to see if they’re the same. If not, find a theme that is.
3. Write claim with theme that is in both stories.
4. Quote evidence about theme in “Captain Hardcastle”
5. Analyze evidence with an inference.
6. Quote evidence about theme in “The Matron”
7. Analyze evidence with an inference. / [Student-generated]
2. How does Dahl feel about the doctor’s treatment of Ellis’ boil in “Little Ellis and the boil”? Use two details from the story to support your response.
Steps / Response1. Re-read the text and find details about how Dahl feels about what the doctor did to Ellis’ boil.
2. Write a claim about how Dahl feels.
3. Quote evidence to support how Dahl feels.
4. Analyze evidence with an inference.
5. Quote evidence to support how Dahl feels.
6. Analyze evidence with an inference. / [Student-generated]
3. What evidence in “Goat’s tobacco” supports the idea that Dahl’s family thought that his sister’s manly lover was pretentious and annoying? Use two details from the story to support your response.
Steps / Response1. Re-read the text and find details about how the family feels about the manly lover. Check to make sure evidence shows they think the manly lover is pretentious and annoying.
2. Write a claim about Dahl’s family feels.
3. Quote evidence to support how Dahl’s family feels.
4. Analyze evidence with an inference.
5. Quote evidence to support how Dahl’s family feels.
6. Analyze evidence with an inference. / [Student-generated]
4. How do Dahl’s feelings about boarding school at St. Peter’s (in “First Day,” p. 75) differ from his feelings about boarding school at Repton (in “Getting dressed for the big school,” p. 135, and “Boazers,” p.141)? Use two details from the story to support your response.
Steps / Response1. Find details about Dahl’s feelings about boarding school at St. Peter’s.
2. Find details about Dahl’s different feelings about boarding school at Repton.
3. Write claim explaining how Dahl’s feelings are different at St. Peter’s than at Repton.
4. Quote evidence about Dahl’s feelings about boarding school at St. Peter’s from “First Day.”
5. Analyze evidence with an inference.
6. Quote evidence about Dahl’s feelings about boarding school at Repton from “Getting Dressed...” or “Boazers”
7. Analyze evidence with an inference. / [Student-generated]
5. What does the phrase “Feeling like an undertaker’s apprentice in a funeral parlour” on p. 139 most likely indicate about Dahl? Use two details from the story to support your response.
Steps / Response1. Re-read the text and find details before and after the phrase that give clues about how Dahl feels.
2. Make an inference about how Dahl feels based on these clues.
3. Write a claim explaining that the phrase indicates that Dahl feels _____.
4. Quote evidence to support how Dahl feels based on context.
4. Analyze evidence with an inference.
5. Quote evidence to support how Dahl feels based on context.
6. Analyze evidence with an inference. / [Student-generated]