Benchmarks
Literature
FCAT
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Strategies
100
Mostly what the story is about, like a summary.
What is the Main Idea?
100
The term for the important events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of a story; the sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
100
Instead of relying on your memory, you should do this when answering the questions.
What is go back in the passage and find the answer?
100
When you are asked to give the passage a new title, they are really checking to see if you know this.
What is the Main Idea?
100
The first thing you should do when you are given the passage to read.
What is look at the title?
200
Something that can be proved or disproved.
What is a fact?
200
Putting events in the order in which they took place.
What is the sequence of events or chronological order?
200
A quick way to search for an answer in the text after you have read the text.
What is to skim or scan?
200
Why something happens.
What is a cause?
200
After looking at the title, the next step you should take.
What is looking at the way the passage is organized - bold faced type, headings, etc.?
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?
300
What happens as a result of an action.
What is an effect?
300
This is a pre-reading strategy that some people find helpful (remember, "pre-" means before).
What is previewing the questions?
400
Finding the similarities between two or more subjects.
What is comparing them?
400
A logical guess about what you think might happen next in the story (based on what you have just read).
What is a prediction?
400
Answer the question in your head first, then look at the choices given and see if one of the choices is the same as your answer
What is the best way to answer a multiple choice question?
400
A short statement that tells about the Main Idea in a story or article.
What is a summary?
400
While reading you should be doing this for each paragraph or section.
What is underline the main idea?
500
Finding the differences between 2 or more subjects.
What is contrasting them?
500
The central 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
This is the type of information you should underline while you read (other than the main idea).
What are dates, times, names, characters, and other supporting details.
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