The News Report
A Series of Paragraphs
Getting Ready
Reading
Skills
100
this is what the first paragraph is called
What is a lead?
100
the first paragraph is called this
What is an introduction?
100
You should get at least 8 the night before
What is hours of sleep?
100
doing this before reading the passages will help you locate information
What is looking over the questions?
100
looking over a passage without reading every word refers to this skill
What is scanning?
200
the report must be based on these items
What is the headline and photo?
200
when writing the series of paragraphs you must express this
What is my own opinion?
200
Eating a healthy one can help you think in the morning
What is breakfast?
200
these appear in the passages to help you locate information
What is line numbers or paragraph numbers?
200
when completing multiple choice use this process to rule out wrong answers
What is process of elimination?
300
at least two must be used to provide insight about the event
What are quotations?
300
Each body paragraph must begin with this
What is a topic sentence?
300
students must be at school at this time to start the test
What is 8:12?
300
the selections that are the shortest will require you to do this
What is identify the main idea?
300
you should do this to form most of your topic sentences
What is turn the question into a statement?
400
this many short paragraphs comprise the report
What is five?
400
you must use a combination of these in body paragraphs to expand on the idea expressed in each topic sentence
What are facts, reasons, details, examples and explanations?
400
students cannot do this during the break
What is leave the floor they are writing on?
400
the short answer response that follow most reading selections are these types of questions
What is "how" and "why"?
400
the literacy test evaluates your reading and writing skills up to this
What is the end of grade 9?
500
all events in the report must be conveyed using this tense
What is past?
500
The conclusion always has these two functions
What is restates main idea and summarizes arguments?
500
students cannot do this after the break
What is return to Booklet 1?
500
how and why questions that follow reading selections require this in the answer
What is "specific details" or "supporting evidence"?
500
this is what the s.s. represents in OSSLT
What is secondary school?
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