Strategies
This Gives a "Heads Up" on What We Are Going to Read and Do.
What is skimming the passage?
One Type of Question on the FAST ELA Test and Explain It.
What are M/C, Part A and Part B, Multiselect, Graphic Response Item Display (GRID), Drag-And-Drop, Edit Task?
This is Added to a Passage to Give More Information.
What is Text Feature?
Message or Moral
What is Theme?
Informational or Non-Fiction, Fiction, Argumentative
What are the Three Types of Texts on the FAST ELA Test?
This Gets Rid of "Junk" Answers.
What is Process of Elimination?
Text Evidence is What This Question is Always About.
What is Part "B"?
A Group of Lines in Poetry.
What is a Stanza?
How a Text is Organized.
What is Text Structure?
An Educated Guess Supported by Text Evidence.
What is Inference?
Before you answer the question you must make sure you understand.
What the Questions are Asking You?
The Most Common Reason Why Students Miss Multi-Select Questions.
What is Only Selecting One Answer?
These Are The Three Types of Third-Person POV.
What Are Limited, Objective, and Omniscient?
Metaphor, Simile, Hyperbole, Oxymoron, Symbolism, Imagery, Irony, and Allusion are Examples of This.
What is Figurative Language?
These are the Three Types of Author's Purpose.
What are Inform, Entertain, and Persuade?
This is what you should do since you have 120 (or more) minutes.
What is Use Your Time Wisely/Review Answers?
Edit Task Questions Require Us to Use This
What is understanding spelling and conventions/conventions?
These Are The Five Elements of Literature (Or of a Plot).
What are Setting, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution?
The Topic, Not the Message, of a Passage.
What is Central or Main Idea?
A Question Not Meant to Be Answered, But is Asked to Get the Reader to Think.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
To Know Why the Author Wrote the Passage.
What is Determine the Author's Purpose. (You Do This When Scanning the Passage).
Daily Double
Five Types of Questions on the FAST ELA and Explain Them.
What are M/C, Part A and Part B, Open Response, Multiselect, Graphic Response Item Display (GRID), Drag-And-Drop, Table Match, Edit Task?
These Are Logical, Emotional, and Experienced Reasoning.
What Are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos?
One is the Dictionary's Definition and One is an Emotional Connection.
What are Denotation and Connotation?
Give an Example of a Part A and Part B Question.
Answers Will Vary.