7th grade VOCAB
Read the sentence below:
"Many children died, when CONTAGIOUS illnesses, such as measles, broke out onboard ship."
What can you infer the meaning of contagious is?
(a) bad (b) hard to treat (c) spreads easily
(c) spreads easily
Read the sentence below:
"It was a NOMINAL amount, today less than 10 U.S. cents a tree."
Nominal most likely means:
(a) fair (b) the name of the money used (c) small
(c) small
Once you read the text once and you find you are having trouble understanding, what is one strategy you can use to comprehend better?
Re-read the text
What symbol would you see if an author is citing a primary source?
quotation marks " "
In order to understand all of the information in a prompt, after reading it once you should..
re-read the prompt
Read the sentence below:
"Hope was the one guiding star that led millions of people to IMMIGRATE to America."
Based off of the sentence, immigrating most likely means:
(a) swim (b) travel to live permanently (c) follow each other
(b) travel to live permanently
Read the sentence below:
"Disappointed, but not DETERRED, the National Council of Women of Kenya urged her to pursue the idea...."
What can you infer the meaning of deterred is?
(a) discouraged
(b) angry
(c) confused
(a) discouraged
As you are reading the text you may make notes on the side in the margin to help you chunk the information. What is that called?
Annotating/writing gists
however, even though, on the one hand, still, despite, unlike, although, in spite of, alternately
What utensil should you write all of your tests with?
A pencil
Read the sentence below:
"And the lack of SANITATION in steerage made cleaning up vomit impossible"
What can you infer the meaning of sanitation is based off the sentence?
(a) not having a clean way to get rid of things
(b) not having a heavy duty mop
(c) not being able to steer the ship in order to keep it steady
(a) not having a clean way to get rid of things
Read the sentence below:
"...and other African countries, have INTEGRATED the Green Belt Movement's approach."
Integrated most likely means:
(a) started using
(b) segregated
(c) threw away
(a) started using
In order to find details/important information for the short answer response, as you read you should do this on the text, to make it easy to find the answers again
Highlight/underline
therefore, so, because, due to, as a result
After you read the text, BEFORE you begin writing sentences, you can do this on a separate sheet of paper to organize your thoughts
complete a planning page
Read the sentence below:
"By 1880, an Atlantic Ocean crossing on a steamship lasted eight to 14 days-- not bad, compared with the one-to-three month EXPEDITIONS of the earlier sailing ships."
Expeditions most likely means:
(a) the name of the ships
(b) a journey or voyage
(c) a vacation
(b) a journey or voyage
Read the sentence below:
"For their boldness, Maathai and Green Belt colleagues were subjected to STINTS in jail...."
What can you infer the meaning of stints is?
(a) torture using metal rods
(b) other inmates
(c) period of time
(c) period of time
As you are reading, you are always looking for the purpose-why you are reading. Where do you find your purpose?
The writing prompt
For author's purpose we often use the P.I.E. acronym to help us remember why an author writes what they do. What are the three reasons?
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
In argumentative writing, what is the first sentence that you will write to state what you think?
Your position/a position statement
Read the sentence below:
"On a busy day, immigrants might have to wait their turn to DISEMBARK, standing for several hours with no food or drink"
What can you infer disembark means?
(a) leave the ship
(b) get on the ship
(c) get a room assignment
(a) leave the ship
Read the sentence below:
"Maathai, the first African woman and first environmentalist to be honored with a peace prize, has always HEWN to a singular path.
Hewn most likely means:
(a) to make
(b) to stay or follow
(c) to cut or chop
(b) to stay or follow
If you are feeling anxiety and feeling overwhelmed at some point during the test, what is one strategy that you can use?
Raise your hand to go to the bathroom, take a deep breath, chunk it (take one section/one paragraph/one question at a time)
An author will often write an italicized blurb of information below the title. They do this in order to...
To give the reader the main idea
If you are asked to use information from both articles you are reading, what is the best way to organize your thoughts?
Separate them into paragraphs of their own. Each article gets a paragraph to support your main idea.