Test Strategies
What is the first thing you should do when you are starting to work on your questions (think of step 1 of your strategies)?
Read the question
Define claim
Author's argument or position on a topic
This is used to add color to the passage.
Highlighter/to highlight
This is a character's perspective OR how the story is told.
What is Point of View?
How long can you take for the FAST test?
As long as you need.
What is something you can do to help you understand your articles/texts? (There are multiple possible answers)
Highlight, planning sheet, take notes, etc.
What kind of figurative language is this?
She was as sweet as candy
Simile
What is one (1) thing you can do to help yourself BEFORE YOU even test? (There are multiple answers)
Good night's rest, eat breakfast, charge computer, pack backpack, etc.
How a text is organized.
What is text structure?
An educated guess supported by text evidence.
Inference
What is something you can do to help you get rid of answers you know are wrong?
Strikethrough
Name three (3) different types of text structure
Compare & contrast, description, problem/solution, cause & effect, chronological/sequence
True or False: You can skip questions and go back to them without being penalized.
False
The message, lesson, moral, or topic of a text.
What is the theme?
The place we write notes and information during the test.
What is the planning sheet?
What should you do when you think you're done answering a question? (2 parts/answers here)
Double-check you've answered correctly based on the text AND type of question
Define tone vs. mood
Tone- speaker/author's feelings
Mood- reader's emotions
To cross out answer choices that you have eliminated as possible correct answers.
What is strikethrough?
Metaphor, Simile, Hyperbole, Oxymoron are examples of this.
What is Figurative language?
How do you access the FAST test?
Using your own charged laptop with your login and password, you click on FLSecureBrowser.
Why should you come up with the answer in your head before looking at other choices?
So you don't get tricked
These are the four types of author's purpose. (List ALL of them)
Persuade, inform, entertain, share personal story
Why can/should you wait to submit your test at the end of the testing block?
So you can review/edit answers
One is the dictionary's definition and one is an emotional meaning/feeling.
Denotation- definition
Connotation- emotional feeling
What kind of texts could you read on the test?
Informational articles, short stories, poems, etc.