Growth mindset/strategies
What body part is the brain compared to since it can be trained?
What is the brain?
Define Author's purpose.
What is the reason why an author writes a text.
Define main idea.
What is, what a text or paragraph is mostly about?
If you identify the text type an author uses what is revealed?
How they organized a text.
What is the purpose of text features?
To support the reader's understanding of a text.
What is the name of the strategy where you cross out answers that are obviously incorrect?
What is process of elimination?
What are the three types of author's purpose?
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
What is central idea?
Name the different text types an author might use.
1.Sequence
2. descriptive
3.Problem and solution
4. compare and contrast
5.cause and effect
What text feature is provided at the beginning of every MCAS passage to provide background information and that you must always read.
What is the summary/abstract/synopsis?
What strategy is most helpful if you are asked about a specific paragraph or part of the text?
What is going back and re-reading?
Read the passage: what is the author's purpose?
A section in a history book describing the conditions and causes of the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s.
What is inform?
Name one thing a summary of the main idea should NOT include.
Name the text type: an author is explaining ways to end climate change.
What is problem and solution.
How does a glossary support a reader?
It helps the define words they don't know.
What is one way you can improve the neural connections in your brain to get better at a skill?
What is practicing and or taking feedback when facing challenges?
What is the author's purpose in this text?
An article where the author argues that an iPhone is better than an Android phone.
What is persuade?
Identify the main idea of the passage:
Before you put on that skeleton and rove door-to-door pandering for candy, take a minute to reflect onf the tradition. Halloween is believed to have come from an ancient Celtic Festival dating back some 2,000 years. They celebrated by wearing costumes made of animal skins and dancing around bonfires. Over the next milennia, this primitive celebration grew to be the candy fueled holiday that we know today.
What is the origins of Halloween?
Identify clue words that occur in cause and effect texts (name at least three)
What are Because, so that, therefore, this lead to, if... then, reasons why, since, as a result, due to
What is a timeline?
How did the 1972 study of rats in the article "The Brain as a muscle" support that growth mindset is possible?
What is the rats who had a stimulating environment and interactions with other rats had more neural connections in their brains?
Knowing the author's purpose can help you determine other things about a text, name one.
What is the main idea?
Identify the main idea of the passage: There are many types of lethal venom in the animal kingdom, but perhaps no stranger carrier than the platypus. The platypus is one of few venomous mammals. Male Platypus carry a venom cocktail in their ankle spurs. Stranger still, the platypus is the only mammal that uses electroreception. That means that the platypus uses its bill to sense the electricity produced by the muscular movements of its prey. What an odd creature indeed.
What is the strange and unique attributes of the platypus?
Determine the text type: An article that describes how not getting enough sleep leads to teenagers being moody, failing school work, and being physically sick.
What is cause and effect?
Name the following text feature:
"Read: "Drive-ins the last great picture show," an article about drive-in movie theaters, places where people go to watch movies in their cars. the answer the questions that follow.
What is synopsis/abstract/summary.