Reading Strategies
This strategy uses text evidence plus your own thinking to understand something not directly stated.
What is an inference?
This sentence directly answers the question in a Short Constructed Response (SCR).
What is the claim?
This is the purpose of a thesis statement.
What is answering the prompt?
This is the final step in editing: checking for spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes.
What is proofreading?
This is the message or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
This strategy removes answer choices that don’t match the text.
What is process of elimination?
What is the character limit on Short Constructed Responses?
What is 450?
This paragraph introduces your topic and grabs the reader’s attention.
What is the introduction?
This type of sentence error happens when modifiers are placed too far from the words they describe.
What is a misplaced modifier?
This is the struggle between two opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
These clues around a word help you figure out its meaning.
What are context clues?
What must be paired with evidence to make a relevant argument?
What is reasoning?
This paragraph restates your thesis and wraps up your essay.
What is the conclusion?
These are the most common coordinating conjunctions.
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
This is the perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
This strategy means marking important ideas, key words, or questions directly on the text.
What is annotating?
This is the quality your claim must have so the grader knows exactly what you’re answering.
What is clarity?
These are the author’s exact words taken directly from the passage.
What are direct quotes?
This type of error happens when a sentence is missing a subject or a verb.
What is a fragment?
This is the author’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
This type of proof comes directly from the passage.
What is text evidence?
This is the type of evidence that restates the author’s ideas in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
This is the exact structure an extended constructed response should follow.
What is introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion?
This type of sentence combines two independent clauses with a comma and a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
This is a clue or hint about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?