Reading Strategies
Question Answering Strategies
Question Types
Test Taking Strategies
Miscellaneous
100
This Reading Strategy is used after reading EVERY paragraph in an ACT reading passage.
What is Writing a 1-3 word summary?
100
This Question Strategy is used to get rid of unlikely answer choices for a question. 


What is Eliminating Nonsense?
100
This question type asks about words as they are used in the passage. 
What is Vocabulary in Context? 
100
When taking the ACT Test, students will need to bring this kind of writing utensil. 
What is a Number 2 Pencil? 
100
As stated during the assembly on Wednesday, this is Ms. Hill's strategy for surviving the zombie apocalypse. 
What is lying on the ground and pretending to be dead? 
200
This Reading Strategy is used to read a paragraph in a reading passage as fast as possible. 
What is reading the first sentence and last sentence, and then skimming the middle? 
200
This Question Strategy is used when there are no other strategies left. 
What is Guessing? 
200
This question type asks about small factual pieces of information within the passage.
What are Detail Questions?
200
When completing the Reading Section of the ACT, students will have this amount of time to complete this amount of reading passages and questions.


(This is a 3 part answer)

What is 35 minutes, 4 reading passages, and 40 questions?
200
According to Crumpet the Elf, this winter Elf was the flirtiest of all the winter elves at Santaland. 
What is Snowball?
300
This Reading Strategy is another phrase for finding important information within a reading passage. 
What is finding Key Words?
300
This Question Strategy is used to find information mentioned in a reading question.
What is Referring to the passage?*


*Also acceptable: Finding Key Words in the passage

300
This Question Type is often phrased as "It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that..."
What are Inference Questions?
300
When taking the practice ACT test yesterday, this was the amount of time students spent on each reading passage.*


*Two possible answers for this question

What is 10 minutes per passage (4 reading, 6 answering questions) AND/OR 11-12 minutes per passage (5 reading, 6-7 for answering questions)?
300

According to one of our warm-ups this week, the word composed most nearly means this word. 

What is constituted? 
400
This Reading Strategy is used on an ACT passage when the reader doesn't understand a sentence. 

What is skipping the sentence and returning to it if necessary?*


*Remember that skipping a sentence is really only ok for the ACT! 

400

This Question Answering Strategy is used to predict possible answers to the question before reading the answer choices. 

What is Anticipating the answer?
400
This Question Type asks about the main subject, theme, or the author's overall point of view within the passage. 
What are Big Picture Questions? 
400
This strategy is used at the end of the reading test when a student still has passages/questions left to answer. 
What is answering questions with line numbers and guessing the remaining answers? 
400
A poorly constructed burrito was likened to this popular type of candy. 
What is LifeSavers? 
500
This Reading Strategy is used to note changes in ideas in an ACT reading passage. 
What is Circling or Underlining transition phrases?
500
The following Question Answering Strategies should be completed in what order while taking the ACT:

Guessing, Anticipating, Referring to the passage, Eliminating

What is:

1) Referring back to the passage

2)Anticipating the answers

3) Eliminating nonsense

4) Guessing

500
An example of this Question Type is:

"The main function of the second paragraph (lines 20-29) is to..."


What are Development and Function Questions?
500
This is the MOST IMPORTANT strategy to remember while taking the ACT.
What is NEVER LEAVE A QUESTION BLANK!!!
500
This mythical creature is something Ms. Hill collects.

What are garden gnomes? 

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