Reading Skills
The main idea strategy that we discussed on the first day of class was...
What is highlighting topic and closing sentences?
The very first thing you always do when encountering a passage...
What is read the background information?
The answer choice 'NO CHANGE' is always letter...
What is 'a'?
You have _____ minutes to complete 4 passages in the writing section.
What is 35 minutes?
She _______ the idea that dystopians were the best kind of literature.
What is espoused?
The difference between mood and tone...
What is Mood is the reader's emotion from a text; tone is the author's attitude about a topic in the text?
This strategy helps you to know what you're looking for as you read, and asks you to mark up the text...
What is chunking?
Identify and fix the error in this sentence: Harriet Beecher Stowe was renowned not only in the United States but also in Europe: in Rome she could seldom walk through the streets unrecognized.
What is the colon --> semicolon?
The 4 types of distractors are...
What is broad, narrow, inaccurate, and ridiculous?
My boss warned me again and again not to open the ________ emails I kept receiving, suspicious that they were phishing attempts.
What is dubious?
The types of questions that have these question stems: The author believes that… / The ____ is best described as… / The statement in paragraph _____ shows that…
What are paraphrase questions?
Name two strategies we discussed regarding vocabulary questions...
What is fill in the blank and answer vocab questions first?
Identify & fix the errors in this sentence: Reading maps involve several abilities, including the ability to locate places, to ascertain directions, to measure distances, and interpreting the mapmaker’s symbols.
What is involve --> involves and interpreting -->to interpret?
Name 3 mindfulness strategies...
What is 5 finger gratitude, note of affirmation, deep breaths, 5 senses observation, chair twists, and side stretch?
While we were stranded on the island, we decided to _________ our resources for the sake of everyone.
What is consolidate?
From our practice test, this question was a ___________ question: Which reaction does Akira most fear from Chie?
What is inference? This was not explicitly stated in the text.
______ 1st ______. Name the strategy and where these kinds of questions are located.
What is graph 1st works & what is at the very end of the question set?
Identify & fix the error in this sentence: Business writing often describes a journey of finances and corporations, a vision that is risky either because of an unsteady market but also because of political changes.
What is but also --> or because?
Name 2 general strategies regarding how to answer questions...
What is go with your gut and answer all the questions?
She began to summarize the __________ points of the group's proposal, explaining that the goal was not as __________ as it seemed.
What is salient & illusory?
We discussed 5 strategies for command of evidence questions. Name 3 of them...
What are make predictions, look for key words, answer simultaneously, chunking, read all the answer choices?
The paired passages strategy. Name it and explain how to use it and its purpose.
What is divide and conquer? What is determining which questions align with which passage and labeling/reading accordingly? What is breaking up the reading/questions into manageable sections?
Identify & fix the errors in this sentence: More books' are being written and published than ever before, the book has withstood the advent of the cinema, television, and personal computer and are likely to be there in centuries to come.
What is books' --> books
What is before, the book -->before; the book
What is are likely --> is likely
Two details we learned about literature passages...
What is there is only 1 literature passage and it is always the first passage?
He __________ his assignment to weed the garden, a truly __________ task, and he hoped this role would be ___________ upon another soul tomorrow.
What is lamented, arduous, and bestowed?