Context Clues
Reading Strategies
Benchmarks
Practice
Test-taking Strategies
100
Theories means? There are many theories, or ideas, about what made the Ice Ages happen.
What is an idea?
100
Writing the the key terms from the question on the side of the passage.
What is note taking?
100
This benchmark will ask you to draw similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
100
The author's purpose is to? A baboon lives in groups of 50 to 200. It sleeps in trees to stay safe from hyenas, lions, and predators.
What is to educate, inform,or explain?
100
This means eliminating the choices you know are wrong.
What is process of elimination?
200
Climate means? Scientists think that the whole Earth's climate, or weather, became about 10 degrees cooler for many, many years.
What is weather?
200
Looking at the hints in a sentence or paragraph to define unknown words or phrases.
What are context clues?
200
This benchmark will ask you to determine the essential message of the passage.
What is theme and topic or main idea?
200
How did the author organize this text? To make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich you need to 1. Take out bread, peanut butter, jelly, napkins, knife 2. Spread the jelly on a slice of bread 3. Spread peanut butter on a another slice of bread 4. Face the peanut butter side of the bread and the jelly side of the other bread smoosh them together 5. Place your sandwich on the napkin and get ready to eat
What is describing the steps?
200
Things you do the night and morning before a test
What is getting a good night's rest, waking up early, eating a balanced breakfast, and coming to school early and on time?
300
Congruent triangles are? Some triangles are bigger than others. Some triangles have different shapes than others. Triangles that are the same shape and size are known as congruent triangles.
What are triangles that are the same shape and size?
300
You can answer inference questions by doing these two things
What are clues or facts from the text and your background knowledge?
300
Examples of the author's purpose.
What is entertain, inform, share and persuade?
300
How did the author organize the text? Florida school children chose the panther as the state animal. They chose the panther over the manatee, the alligator, and the key deer. What is the Florida panther? Florida panthers are a type of cougar or mountain lion. The Florida panther is the only group of mountain lions east of the Mississippi River. The panther is a symbol of beauty, wilderness, and survival. Is the Florida panther endangered? In 1967 the federal government listed the Florida panther as endangered. Endangered means that without human help an animal or plant will become extinct. Extinct means that the animal or plant will never again exist on earth
What is describing and giving details about one topic?
300
This is will cause you to get the answer wrong 100% of the time.
What is leaving a question blank?
400
Veterbrates are? Some animals have backbones. Other animals do not. Animals that have backbones are called vertebrates.
What are animals that have back bones?
400
This question can be found by looking for the exact answer in the text.
Where is a direct or "right there" question?
400
Entertaining, Informing, Persuading, Sharing
What are the author's purposes?
400
What is the author's purpose? Clever Trevor likes to play Today he does not know where to stay He goes to the barn to get some hay With the horses he will play
What is to entertain?
400
This will happen to you if you don't follow the testing rules.
What is test invalidation?
500
Tome is? I took the tome off the shelf and opened it to page 94. Then I began to read.
What is a book?
500
These are three of the many pre-reading strategies you can do before you start reading text.
What is looking at text features, using background knowledge and making predictions?
500
This benchmark will ask you to understand the reasons WHY something happens and the RESULTS.
What is cause and effect?
500
How did the author organize this text? Summer is very hot and humid. Children love to play outside because school is out. Many amazing movies come out in the summer. Everybody likes to play water sports. Winter is very cold. In some places it snows but not in Florida. People in the winter wear coats and warm clothes to keep warm. Some people like to drink hot chocolate to stay warm.
What is by comparing two seasons.
500
The most important thing you should always do when answering questions.
What is thinking about the story and if you can't prove don't choose it.
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