This usually is in bold above paragraphs in a non-fiction piece of writing.
What is a subheading?
100
Eating a good breakfast and going to bed early.
What is things you can do the night before MCAS?
100
When an author wants to make a reader laugh or keep them engaged with a lively text.
What is to entertain?
100
This is a 30-40 second pre-reading strategy.
What is look at the bold words, title, and pictures?
100
This is the three parts of a story.
What are beginning, middle, and end?
200
These picture based items help students understand a non-fiction piece of writing by showing locations or numbers of things.
What are maps and diagrams?
200
A strategy you can use with multiple choice to narrow your choices down to two.
What is the process of elimination?
200
This passage will be non-fiction educating a student about a topic.
What is to inform?
200
This involves thinking about what you already know about the topic and thinking about the passage before reading it.
What is checking background knowledge?
200
This is the turning point in a story.
What is the climax?
300
This text feature is usually at the end of a text and defines words found in the non-fiction piece.
What is a glossary?
300
Using the notepad tool or paper provided to draw out your essay organizer.
What is a good strategy for the essay?
300
This purpose tries to get the reader to change their point of view about a topic.
What is persuade/argument?
300
This is the best pre-reading strategy because it saves you time when writing your essay. It tells you what to be looking for while you read.
What is reading the essay question before you read the passage?
300
These are all the things happening in the story that lead up to the climax.
What are rising actions?
400
This is what the little number means next to a word. The definition is provided by the number at the bottome.
What is a footnote?
400
This is the technique the test uses to isolate information in a box so that students won't go back for other helpful info in the passage. This is the phrase Mrs. Witman says about the box.
What is "beware of the box"?
400
This type of writing pokes fun at a topic by mocking it or being sarcastic.
What is satire?
400
This is taking what YOU know and what IT says and putting it together.
What is making an inference?
400
This is the problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
500
This is the page at the front of a book that tells you where to find different information throughout the book.
What is the table of contents?
500
This is the question that is asking you to form an opinion about a choice that is made by someone in the passage and judge whether it is good or bad.
What is evaluate?
500
This type of writing teaches or informs the reader about something.
What is expository?
500
These are words in italics next to a person's name in a play.
What are stage directions?
500
This is the big idea the author wanted you to know or understand after reading.