Strategies
This Gives a "Heads Up" on What We Are Going to Read and Do.
What is Scanning? or What is Prediction?
One Type of Question on the FAST ELA Test and Explain It.
What are M/C, Part A and Part B, Open Response, Multiselect, Graphic Response Item Display (GRID), Drag-And-Drop, Table Match, Edit Task?
This is Added to a Passage to Give More Information.
What is Text Feature?
Message or Moral
What is Theme?
Informational Text: .
Literary Text:.
Poetry & Drama:.
What are the Three Types of Texts on the FAST ELA Test?
This Gets Rid of "Junk" Answers.
What is Process of Elimination?
Text Evidence is What This Question is Always About.
What is Part "B"?
A Group of Lines in Poetry.
What is a Stanza?
How a Text is Organized.
What is Text Structure?
An Educated Guess Supported by Text Evidence.
What is Inference?
To Read with a Purpose/Focus.
You cannot "pre read" Questions but you can scan the text for author's purpose and text structure
The Most Common Reason Why Students Miss Multi-Select Questions.
What is Only Selecting One Answer?
These Are The Three Types of Third-Person POV.
What Are Limited, Objective, and Omniscient?
Metaphor, Simile, Hyperbole, Oxymoron, Symbolism, Imagery, Irony, and Allusion are Examples of This.
What is Figurative Language?
These are the Three Types of Author's Purpose.
What are Inform, Entertain, and Persuade?
This is the first strategy that you should do?.
What is Use Your Time Wisely?
Review Answers?
Come ready to test, rested and ready to go!!
.When used as a study or test-taking acronym for reading passages, the F.A.S.T. strategy breaks down as:
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F – Focus: Concentration on the primary context, main ideas, or overarching purpose of the passage before diving into specific details.
A – Analyze: Examine the text’s argument structure, sentence function, key tone, and supporting evidence.
S – Summarize: Mentally paraphrase or brief each paragraph to capture core points concisely.
T – Test: Assess understanding by answering related questions and verifying that choices directly align with evidence in the passage.
These Are The Five Elements of Literature (Or of a Plot).
What are Setting, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution?
The Topic, Not the Message, of a Passage.
What is Central or Main Idea?
A Question Not Meant to Be Answered, But is Asked to Get the Reader to Think.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
To Know Why the Author Wrote the Passage.
What is Determine the Author's Purpose. (You Do This When Scanning the Passage).
Daily Double
Five Types of Questions on the FAST ELA and Explain Them.
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The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) ELA Reading test measures comprehension, vocabulary, and analysis skills using specific item types designed for computer-adaptive testing.
1. Multiple-ChoiceStandard items where students read a prompt or passage-based question and select the single correct answer from four options. These test direct comprehension, vocabulary in context, or central ideas.
2. Evidence-Based Selected Response (EBSR / Two-Part Questions)A two-part question where Part A asks a comprehension question (such as identifying a main theme or author's claim), and Part B asks the student to choose the exact detail or line from the passage that supports their answer in Part A.
3. Multi-Select QuestionsQuestions that ask students to select more than one correct option (e.g., "Select two options that show how the character changes"). Partial credit is generally not awarded unless all correct choices are selected.
4. Selectable Text / Hot-TextTechnology-enhanced items where individual sentences, lines, or paragraphs in the reading passage become clickable buttons. Students demonstrate textual evidence by directly clicking on the specific sentence in the text that answers the prompt.
5. Table Match / Grid ItemsInteractive grid tables where students sort claims, themes, text structures, or details by placing checkmarks in columns. For example, matching key statements to "Author A," "Author B," or "Both Authors" when evaluating paired passages.
These Are Logical, Emotional, and Experienced Reasoning.
What Are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos?
One is the Dictionary's Definition and One is an Emotional Connection.
What are Denotation and Connotation?
Give an Example of a Part A and Part B Question.
Answers Will Vary.