Main Idea
Genre
Writing Process
Comprehension
Testing Tips
100
This is what the passage is mostly about.
What is main idea?
100
"The Big Wave" is this type of writing.
What is realistic fiction?
100
Examples are webs, venn diagrams, T charts, attribute charts.
What are graphic organizers?
100
When a reader is reminded of something that happened to them or that they have read about in another text, a reader has these.
What are connections?
100
This should be done before choosing a mutiple choice answer.
What is reading all of the choices before picking one?
200
It is what the passage is mostly about.
What is "the big picture" of a passage?
200
"Pocahantas" is this type of writing.
What is biography?
200
This is the stage of writing when we check for spelling and punctuation mistakes.
What is editing?
200
By doing this, we won't forget what we have read.
What is summarizing?
200
This can be done when we eliminate wrong answers.
What is crossing out?
300
Sometimes we must put the main idea in our own words.
What if the main idea is not given in one sentence?
300
"Salt" and "The Girl Who Loved the Wind" are this type of writing.
What is a folktale?
300
This part of writing helps the reader have good mind pictures.
What are vivid details?
300
We pay attention to these if we want to understand characters.
What are details about the characters?
300
This should be done to every question we answer.
What is finding or circling key words?
400
This allows you to tell what a story is mostly about.
Why is it important to summarize a passage?
400
"Martha Helps the Rebel" is this genre.
What is a play?
400
It makes a reader want to read your piece.
What is a hook?
400
If we do not understand what we read, we MUST do this.
What is asking questions?
400
This is an answer that seems like it might be right, but you are not quite sure because another one also seems right.
What is a distraction?
500
These support the main idea.
What are details?
500
"Judith, the Life of a Slave" is this genre.
What is historical fiction?
500
This is the most important thing a writer does before turning in a paper.
What is rereading?
500
Sidebars, footnotes, and graphs are put in many texts to help us do this.
What is understanding the text?
500
You should do this on open response questions, ALWAYS.
What is going back into the passage?
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