Scratch Paper Rules
Where the question is telling you to look for your answer
What is location?
Using clues from the text and what you already know to figure something out
What is predict/infer?
Define personification
What is giving human qualities to non-human things?
“Maybe Hawk would loan her the necklace? She could wear it home and finally be something to envy.”
What does the word envy mean as used in these sentences?
A. borrow B. forget C. forgive D. notice
What is D. notice?
When should you read the questions?
What is before you read the passage(s) and then again before you select an answer?
A specific example or something from the text that supports or prove your answer.
What is evidence/text evidence?
Define summarize
What is telling the most important parts of something in a shorter way?
An extreme exaggeration
What is an hyperbole?
"He could tutor other kids in math or science.”
What does the word tutor mean in the sentence?
A. ask B. copy C. help D. judge
What is C. help?
What does point of view mean as used on the practice test?
What is someone's perspective/opinion/feelings towards a topic or subject?
The important words in a question
What are keywords?
Define explain
What is telling how or why something happens so others understand?
Define flat character
What is a character we don't know much about?
“They whipped up their right hands like little flags waving.”
What does the phrase “whipped up” mean in this sentence?
A. looked at B. stirred with C. put together D. raised quickly
What is D. raised quickly?
Looking back at the passage(s) is helpful when you are...
What is stuck on a question?
What the question is asking you to do/find.
What is skill?
Looking closely at something to understand it better.
What is analyze?
A fire station burning down or raining on the day of a picnic is an example of
What is irony?
“Many swim in shallow water close to the beach.”
What does the word shallow mean as it is used in the sentence?
A. cold B. sandy C. not very wavy D. not very deep
What is D. not very deep?
What is something that is given to you that you MUST use every time you take a test?
What is scratch paper?
'll find the Skill, Keywords, and Location in the...
What is the question?
Telling how two or more things are different.
What is contrast?
It's raining cats and dogs is an example of
What is an idiom?
“There are even ways we use trees that might be unexpected.”
What does “unexpected” mean as it is used in the passage?
A. not expected B. often expected C. expected again D. expected before
What is A. not expected?
What do you when a question asks you to show whether the description is from Passage 1, Passage 2, or both passages?
What is compare and contrast by looking in both passages for the statements/topics provided?