Vocab
A tiny, infectious particle
What is a virus?
True or False? Viruses come in only one shape
False
The number of steps in the multiple-choice strategy
What is 4 steps?
Things to write in the margins
The number of steps in the writing strategy
What is 6 steps?
Something related to an organism’s genes
What is genetic?
How a virus enters the body
What is an opening, such as your mouth or nose
Read the item and think about what it is asking
What is step 1?
Highlighting everything in a reading passage
What is an incorrect way to annotate?
List the details
What is step 1?
Something that has many sides
What is polyhedral?
True or False? Viruses can reproduce
True
Read each choice and think about correct or incorrect
What is step 2?
The color used to highlight important parts
What is yellow?
Connect any details
What is step 3?
Dead or weakened viruses or bacteria that are used to protect organisms against certain diseases
What are vaccines?
To reproduce, a virus attaches itself to a suitable plant, animal, or bacterial cell
What is a host cell?
Read all of the choices, even if you think you know which one is correct
What is step 3?
The color used to highlight vocab words
What is pink?
Step 5
What is writing the paragraph?
Proteins in the blood that destroy germs
What are antibodies?
While a host cell is replicating a virus, small mistakes can occur, resulting in certain changes
What is the genetic code?
Step 4
What is, from all the possible correct choices, selecting the best answer?
The information to highlight with orange
What are unknown parts or words?
Step 6
What is improving your response?