What the question is asking about when it begins with the words, "Paragraph 3 is mainly about... ."
What is main idea?
100
The two questions you ask to determine main idea.
What is the paragraph mainly about? (the topic)
What does the author want me to know about the topic?
100
What you ask yourself when you are determining the theme
What is the moral of the story or the life lesson the author wants us to learn?
100
Clues in the text that help us figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
What are context clues?
200
The amount of time you have to take the test.
What is four hours?
200
What the question is asking you to do when it says, "the reader can conclude that... ."
What is make an inference?
200
What a good summary contains
What is all important events from the beginning, middle, and end of the story?
200
True or False, and why? The main idea is always stated in the first sentence of a paragraph.
What is false? It can be found there or broken up within a passage.
200
A person or animal in a book, movie, or play.
What is a character?
300
What you should always do when a particular part of the text is mentioned in a question.
What is reread that part before answering the question (also underlining it is good)?
300
What type of question this is: "Taylor thought the publisher had not read his book because... ."
What is cause and effect?
300
What you should do for sequence questions
What is go back to the story and find the correct sequence or chronology?
300
True or false? I should read the passage quickly, scanning just the highlights.
What is false? Read the passage for understanding and re-read if necessary.
300
The two main types of conflict
What are internal and external?
400
A valuable test-taking strategy to use while you are reading a passage.
What is take notes in the margins (also known as annotating and actively reading)?
400
When words like, yesterday, winter, or finally are used in a paragraph to help the reader understand . . .
What is the sequence of events?
400
What you should do dwhen answering context clue questions.
What is go back to the text and read the sentences before and after the sentence the word is in?
400
Where you can get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage.
What is the title?
400
Three main types of external conflict
What are man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society?
500
One strategy you should use when making an answer choice.
What is the process of elimination? (Always read ALL the answer choices, eliminate ones you know are incorrect, choose the BEST answer from the ones left.)
500
When the question asks, Which sentence in the selection supports the idea that Texas Tech was considered a better team?"
what is text support?
500
The two things you should consider when making an inference
What is what you know + what is in the text?
A good inference must be based on the text.
500
Why the STAAR test is important to you even in the seventh grade
What is the STAAR allows us to demonstrate our mastery of skills in the 7th grade and targets our preparedness for 8th grade?
500
The difference between mood and tone
What is mood is the feeling readers get when they read a work; tone is the attitude of the author toward their subject matter, audience, or characters?