Testing Vocabulary
No Way or For Realz
Testing Strategies
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100

When you are trying to prove something, you need to give evidence. Where do you get the evidence from? 

The reading passage or text

100

Each IAR test will last for 6 hours. No Way or For Realz?

No Way

100

When you get stuck on a question during the test what can you do? 

Flag it, Skip it and Come Back, Answer it Later 

100

You can use these to find the meaning of an unknown word. 

Context Clues 

100

A story about a real person is known as a _______? 

Biography

200

When reading you are trying to find THIS, the overall idea of what the text is about. 

Main idea

200

You should double check your answers during the exam. No Way or For Realz? 

For Realz

200

You should do this with all the answers you know are WRONG. 

Cross them out or Eliminate them 

200

THESE (2 words) help us understand the character. What they say, how they act, what the look like. 

Character Traits 

200

This genre teaches a moral and often includes animals. There is usually good and bad characters and usually has a happy ending. 

Fables, folktales, fairy tales or tall tales

300

When you read a story, it is told from a character or author's what? 

Point of View 
300

You should read the questions before you read the passages. No Way or For Realz? 

For Realz

300

Before reading the text, you may want to do this FIRST. 

Read the question you need to answer

300
Where the story takes place is called what? 

Setting 

300
What is it called when two characters are talking in a passage? There are quotation marks. 

dialogue  

400

Many FICTION stories will teach THIS to a reader through the character's actions or words. It is the lesson or moral of the story. 

Theme

400

NEVER go back and reread during the IAR test. No Way or For Realz? 

No Way 

400

When answering a question you should go back and find THIS to prove your answer. 

Evidence 

400

This is what happens in the story.  It is the events of the story. 

Plot 

400

This text structure includes dates, steps of doing something, or the order of events. 

Sequence 

500

When you are writing your extended response, you have to make sure to RESTATE the question, ANSWER the question, give TEXT EVIDENCE, and then do what in your own words. 

Explain
500

Rereading the question at least twice is a smart plan. No Way or For Realz? 

For Realz? 

500

If a question says "All these answers are true EXCEPT..." what should you do?

Look for the answer that is wrong. 

500
If you are asked to look at the similarities of two things what are you doing? 

Comparing

500

Something happens and causes something else to happen in this type of text structure.  

Cause and Effect

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