Character Questions
Character questions ask us about_____, ____, ____ about a character.
What is setting, plot, or actions?
_______ answer-May have happened in the story, but has nothing to do with what the question is asking.
What is off topic?
Step 1: Know when you get to a ______ _____ question.
main idea
When you see a ______ questions, it is your job to figure out which answer choice makes the most since.
vocabulary
There will always be one ______ on the EOG with about 6-7 questions
poem
A big component of the seventh grade ELA EOG is your ability to read a question, find _______ in the text, and make an ______ to support the answer
evidence and inference
These questions are like _______ questions in that you have to select the answer choice that BEST supports the claim in the question.
supporting detail
Often times, you have to make an _______ to answer a question.
What is an Inference?
Name three types of false answer choices?
What is no evidence, opposite evidence, & off topic evidence?
Step 2: Think about the ________ story, not small events that the author only mentioned once.
whole
When you see a vocabulary question, you can read through all of the answer choices. Then you can take each word and put them in place of the word in the question.
Plug it In Strategy
Most of the questions will be _______questions
vocabulary
These questions are often times ______ to the content of the passage.
specific
To answer the question:
Determine the _______ (usually this is always given to you in the question).
One tip for succeeding on character questions is to make ______ or notes about the characters or persons in a fictional or biographical passage.
What are Quick Jots?
Test writers try to trick you into selecting the ______ answer because they are testing your smart.
wrong
Step 3: Read all the answer choices. _________ details first, then select the answer that shows the main idea of the whole story or paragraph.
Eliminate
A vocabulary question on a multiple choice test will have four answer choices. Two are always wrong and are usually opposites of the right word. Eliminate the two wrong words first.
Process of Elimination Strategy
Sometimes, you will have to________ figurative language phrases
interpret
They ask you something that happened in the text of why __________ is the way that it is.
something
To answer the question:
Select the _____ ______ that provides the most support or evidence to lift up the claim
answer choice
You can_______ the relationship between story elements by identifying the element first.
analyze
_______ evidence- these answer choice contain the opposite evidence of the question
opposite
This is the right answer of the main idea answer choices
The Main Idea
When you see a vocabulary question, go back in the text, read the sentences before the word and after the word. Then try to plug in an answer choice. Use as many clues from the sentences before and after to figure out which word makes senses
Read on, Read Back
It is important that you always _______ ______ and re-read parts of the poem that the questions are asking you about
Go Back
Most times, you will have to ______ ______ to find details that pertain to the answer.
look back
Look for ______in the text that demonstrates the author's opinion about the statement in the questions.
Many character questions are not ___________ questions.
right there
No ______ -these answer choice have no evidence in the story to support them.
evidence
Only mentioned once in the text of answer choices
Detail
There are many different _______ that can be used to determine the meaning of a word
strategies
Make a _______ next to each stanza, a quick, one sentence summary that re-caps each stanza.
Jot
The answer is not going to be "_____ ____" instead it will be worded differently and you will have to select an answer choice that paraphrases what the text says
right there
Think about how the author ______ about a particular idea based on his words and thoughts in the passage.
feels