TAKS Strategies
Book or Brain
Comprehension
Comprehension (cont)
Strategies/Comprehensio
100
What is the sentence that helps you remember your strategies?
What is Quick Peter Pan chews red salsa and poptarts?
100
What is the setting of the story?
What is a book question?
100
What is the setting of a story?
What is the time and place that a story happens?
100
What is a context clue?
What are the words in the story that help you know the meaning of unfamiliar word?
100
What strategy can you use to eliminate wrong answers?
What is POE (process of elimination)?
200
What story should you start with when beginning the TAKS test?
What is the paired reading?
200
What will the character, Sam most likely do next?
What is a brain question?
200
What is a cause and an effect?
What happened and why it happened?
200
What is making an inference or what does the reader can conclude mean?
What is FIGURING OUT WHAT THE AUTHOR IS TRYING TO TELL YOU?
200
What is important to remember when you get to the LAST story?
What is take your time because you will be tired and in a hurry to finish?
300
If you have TWO paired readings, when should your work on the second one?
What is AFTER LUNCH?
300
What does the word spectacular mean in paragraph 3?
What is a BOOK question?
300
What is a solution?
What is how the problem is worked out or solved?
300
When choosing a summary, what is it important to look for?
What is look for an answer choice that has the MAIN IDEA, most IMPORTANT DETAILS and the ENDING of the story?
300
When you finish your test and have bubbled your answers, what should you ask the teacher for?
What is A TWO FINGER CHECK?
400
What is the best way to get the correct answers on the TAKS test?
What is PROVE YOUR ANSWERS?
400
What is the story mainly about?
What is BRAIN question?
400
What is point of view?
What is the way the author or characters see or feel about what is happening?
400
What is SEQUENCE?
What is the order in which things happen?
400
TRUE OR FALSE I should still be working on my TAKS practice after lunch?
What is TRUE?
500
What does it mean to prove your answers?
What is FIND TEXT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT YOUR IDEAS?
500
What can the reader conclude?
What is a BRAIN question?
500
What is an opinion?
What is what someone thinks, feels or believes?
500
What is compare and contrast?
What is how things are alike and different?
500
What is the author's purpose?
What is to inform, persuade, or entertain?
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