General strategies
Reading strategies
Writing Strategies
Big & Little
Figurative Language
100
Time
What limits how long you can work on a test?
100
read the questions first re-read to find answers
What is a strategy for reading passages with questions at the end of the passage?
100
prompt
What is the most important long-constructed response instruction?
100
rules or directions
What tells a test-taker what to do?
100
topic
What is the subject of a text or story?
200
stray marks (NO stray marks)
What pencil outside the lines will fail a test?
200
main idea
What is the paragraph about?
200
planning
What comes after the prompt and before the rough draft?
200
skip and go back to difficult questions
What is a way to do the easiest questions first?
200
simile
What uses "like" or "as" to compare two things?
300
in the lines, box, space provided stay in the box or within the lines
Where can answers be written?
300
details
What smaller words or phrases support the main idea?
300
revise
What does a writer do to transform the rough draft i9nto the final draft?
300
write neatly stay in the lines
What is one way to get points for written answers?
300
metaphor
What uses "is" or "was" to say one thing IS another thing?
400
Preview
What is looking over the one section of test before you begin?
400
organization type of question text structure
What are clues a good reader uses to comprehend?
400
proofread
What is re-reading to check your own writing?
400
don't spend too much time on one question do the easiest first and go back
What is a strategy to keep moving and use time wisely?
400
imagery
What do we call words that create pictures in the reader's mind?
500
complete every item make your best guess
What is a strategy to score as high as possible?
500
eliminate least likely answers guess between remaining answers
What is a strategy to help choose the best answer?
500
details, vivid verbs, similes, metaphors, adjectives, examples
What can be added to a rough draft to improve the final draft?
500
check that you filled in all items
What is a strategy for the last 5-10 minutes?
500
personification
When an inanimate object moves or acts like a person, it is called____________________.
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