Test Taking Strategies
"M"arvelous Organizers
Potent Patterns
"C"lassy Words
100
Read this before searching for an answer in a reading selection.
What is the question?
100
This graph organizer shows how ideas on a topic relate to one another. It is called a concept, idea, cluster, or spider ___________.
What is a map?
100
A passage that gives several dates in order uses this pattern of organization.
What is chronological or time order?
100
The division and classification pattern of organization divides items into types or these.
What are categories?
200
Read all of the ________choices before making your selection.
What is answer?
200
This graphic organizer is also referred to as a table. It has columns and rows, and it shows how ideas compare to one another.
What is a matrix?
200
A passage that gives the reasons why something happened and the results of that event would probably use this pattern of organization.
What is cause and effect?
200
Words such as "unlike," "but," and "except" may indicate differences or __________ between two items compared.
What is contrast?
300
You may want to read the question and answer choices and then _____ the passage for the answer.
What is skim or scan?
300
An outline shows subheadings and supporting details by indenting from the left _______.
What is margin?
300
A passage that describes a region according to what you see as you look around in different directions probably uses this pattern of organization.
What is spatial?
300
Use these _______ _______ to help you figure out the meaning of unfamiliar terms in a reading passage.
What are context clues?
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