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Helpful Strategies
Vocabulary
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Constructed Responses
100
Preview the passage, read the questions, look at the key vocabulary, set a purpose for reading.
What is before reading strategies?
100
Using context clues or breaking words up into prefixes, suffixes or roots or looking at text features.
What is methods for understanding the meaning of unfamiliar words?
100
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
What are the elements of plot?
100
This is the reason the author has written a biography, autobiography, cookbook... The author can choose to write for a few different reasons: to persuade, to inform, to entertain or even "explain". Think: PIE
What is author's purpose?
100
Use the answer in your question. Make sure the person who reads your work knows that you understood the question. Be sure to write your answers in complete sentences. Double check your spelling, grammar and punctuation marks to be sure you used them correctly.
What are ways to answer an essay/constructive response question?
200
Asking yourself questions, making connections to your own life or other books you have read, visualizing and making predictions what will happen next.
What is Active or During Reading Strategies?
200
Match, best describes, mainly about, in paragraph 4, EXPLAIN, all of the following EXCEPT, most important and least important.
What is Key Words and Phrases?
200
The message, the moral or the lesson the author wants you to learn after reading the story.
What is theme?
200
This is great "during reading" strategy that you can use to ensure that you are understanding what you are reading. You can also use this as an "after reading" strategy to summarize what you have read. *Remember if you cannot answer these questions - look for your answers.
What is ask yourself the 5W/1H questions - who, what, when, where, why and how.
200
Groups of cranes leap up from the sandbars and circle. Their weird gargling garoooo sounds are unearthly and spine-chilling. We shiver with nice fright as well as cold. More cranes join the ones flying until the sky seems full of huge wings and straggly legs. Then, as if they shared one brain, they flap away toward the flooded meadows. What is the meaning of the phrase "gargling garoooo". Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
The paragraph states that the sound is "unearthly and spine-chilling". Unearthly means that it is not a popular sound that we hear all the time and spine-chilling means it gives you chills or makes you uneasy or uncomfortable. I know this because the sentence said "we shiver with fright". So the phrase "gargling garooo" means a strange or unusual sound that is scary to hear.
300
Increasing your chances in multiple choice questions by eliminating some of the choices. Some of the questions will have more than one answer. The question will provide clues "choose ALL", "choose 3", "choose 4"...
What is the Process of Elimination? What is reading the question carefully - look at the key words in the question.
300
The Deck (information at the top of the page about what you are reading), flow diagrams, maps, captions, sub-headings, figures, charts/tables, pronunciation guide, photographs.
What is Text Features?
300
Third person limited, first person, third person omniscient. First person: the story is told from a character in the story Third person limited: the story is told from an unknown narrator. Reader knows thoughts/feelings of only 1 character Third person omniscient: the story is told from an unknown narrator. Reader knows thoughts/feelings of MORE than 1 character
What is point of view?
300
You can do this before you begin reading. It will help you to identify relevant information by using text elements as "signs" (includes: section headings, chapter titles, illustrations, photographs, graphs, diagrams, maps, math examples, repeated words, boxes and sidebars, index, captions, boldface terms or concepts, key words in questions) and locate essential information that can help them answer a question.
What is skimming a text?
300
State your answer to the question, use the text to support your answer, show how the details or examples from the text answer the question. In the second paragraph it said "....." I like how the second paragraph pointed out The details that support that .... is the protagonist include ....
What is "Say it! Support it! Explain it!"? PROVE YOUR ANSWER - You have to write like you are a reporter. Reporters must have proof/facts. Use evidence from the text to support your thinking. Put in quotation marks or place in your own words.
400
Go with your first guess, rereading some of the text to find the correct answer, rereading the question to make sure you understand what to do, applying what you have learned.
What is After Reading Strategies?
400
Sequence, Descriptions, Cause and Effect, Problem Solution, Compare and Contrast.
What is Text Structures?
400
The attitude the author takes towards a certain subject or character such as humorous, sarcastic, ironic or serious.
What is tone?
400
When you are working...you should keep these three phrases in mind to demonstrate what you know and what you can do.
What is read like a detective, think like an author and write like a reporter?
400
Asking yourself questions like: Did I answer all parts of the question? Did use enough details from the text to support my answer? Did I read my answer for clarity?
What is Review my answer?
500
Texting your friends way after bedtime and loosing sleep, not eating breakfast, complaining you always do poorly on tests because you hate taking tests, thinking you should have sent Justin Bieber a Birthday card or anything like these things....
What is things you don't do before you take test?
500
Identify the text structure: In April, American and British forces clashed in Massachusetts. A year later, the U.S. declared its independence. Trouble had been brewing for more than 10 years. In 1763, Britain defeated France n the French and Indian War. Remember to look for signal words, cue words for identifying the type of text structure.
What is an example of sequence text structure or organizational pattern?
500
An unexpected twist, sarcasm, say what is not expected, fate. -An unexpected twist (you have a dentist appointment on Monday at 3 but when you arrive to the dentist office - the office is closed) -When a character says the opposite of what they really mean; sarcasm -When the reader knows something that the character does not expect (You know that there is someone in the closet but the character does not know that)
What is irony?
500
These are some things that you will find useful on some parts of the test: Highlighter, dictionary, notepad...
What is use the tools on the test?
500
* Your response demonstrates understanding of the reading. * Your response addresses all parts of the question. * Your response includes enough related details to support your answer.
What is how to get full credit?