Test Taking Strategies
You've completed the exam with time to spare. What should you do next?
Review my responses.
R. A. C. E. strategy
Restate
Answer
Cite evidence
Explain
This figurative language is used to compare two things that are unrelated using like or as.
Simile
All about the consequences of smoking.
Cause and effect
Rhyme
It's been five minutes and you still don't understand a question. What should you do?
Move onto the next question and come back to the question later.
Use this strategy when determining the central idea.
What? So what?
See what repeats and ask "so what?"
This figurative language gives human like qualities to non living things. The teddy bear stared at his owner with attentive eyes.
Personification
How to solve the dilemma of climate change.
Problem and solution.
The sound and a feel of a poem.
Rhythm
What is the first thing you should do when coming across a lengthy question?
Reread the question. Look for keywords throughout the question.
You are reading a new text. What is the first thing you do?
Check the genre-fiction or non fiction
This figurative language compares two unrelated things by saying they are the same thing.
Sammy's eye are emeralds in the light of the sun
Metaphor
Steps to building a bird catcher.
Sequence/Process/Chronological
A Japanese poem with three lines and 5,7,5 meter.
Haiku
You are feeling overwhelmed during the exam. What should you do?
Take a few deep breaths and relax tense muscle - repeat throughout the test.
Take a brain break.
Use positive self talk.
You have come across an unfamiliar word. What do you do?
This figurative language uses extreme exagarration to emphasis a point. I love you to the moon and back.
Hyperbole
How digital books are just like paper books!
Compare and contrast
The space between lines in a poem.
Line break.
You are answering a multiple choice question but are having trouble selecting the correct answer. What should you do?
Use process of elimination.
Reread (part of the) passage.
What strategy do you use for author's purpose?
P. I. E.
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
This figurative language uses the sound of the word to imitate the sound it is describing.
The fireplace heater hissed and crackled.
Onomatopoeia
All about robots and their many functions.
Description
A paragraph in a poem.