Testing
Reading
TAKS
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Strategies
100
Kind, understanding, and obnoxious are all examples of what?
Character Traits
100
The term for the important events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
Summary
100
Instead of relying on your memory, you should do this when answering the questions.
Look back, find the answers, prove your answers.
100
Using tally marks will help you find this.
What is the Main Idea?
100
The first thing you should do when you are given the passage to read.
What is box the title?
200
Something that can be proved or disproved.
What is a fact?
200
When things are presented by the author in the order that they happened.
What is the sequence of events or chronological order?
200
A quick way to search for an answer in the text.
What is to skim or scan?
200
Why something happens.
What is a cause?
200
After boxing the title, the next step you should take.
Underlining vocabulary words
300
What a person thinks or feels about a subject.
What is an opinion?
300
The time and place in which a story happens.
What is the setting?
300
The reason the author wrote the article.
What is the author's purpose? PIE
300
What happens as a result of an action.
What is an effect?
300
The first "R" in BUDRRRP means to do this.
Read the questions.
400
Finding how two things are similiar.
What is comparing them?
400
What you think might happen next in the story based on what you have just read.
What is a prediction?
400
Cause and effect is an example of the organization an author can choose for a passage. Name three others.
Problem-Solution, chronological order (sequence of events), compare-contrast
400
Using BME will help you answer these questions.
Summary questions
400
Something important you do as you preview the questions.
Make notes
500
Finding how two things are different.
What is contrasting them?
500
The important message of a story.
What is the theme?
500
An educated guess based on the information in the text and your background knowledge.
What is an inference?
500
What is used to figure out a meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What is a context clue?
500
While reading the passage, what you should be doing at the end of each section?
Writing stop to think notes
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