Test Strategies
Read the title and questions first, then read the passage.
Who the story is mostly about?
The Main Character
What is a margin?
The empty space on the sides of the passage.
This part of speech is a person, place, thing or, animal.
Noun
How many times should you read the text before answering the questions?
Twice
You are reading a passage. What tool should you use to help you remember an important sentence?
The highlighter!
Who is the speaker?
the person telling the poem or story
What text feature lists heading along with their page numbers? (at the beginning)
Table of Contents
This part of speech is an action.
Verb
When answering questions about a text where should you look to find the answers?
In the text.
Usually 2 answers are obviously wrong and 2 seem like they might be correct. What strategy can you use to help you answer questions.
Process of Elimination
What do we call "what a passage is mostly about?"
The Main Idea or central idea
What is dialogue?
What is a caption?
The writing under a picture.
How do you prove your answers?
By highlighting them in the passage.
You read a passage and are answering a question. You think you know the answer, but you are not 100% sure. What can you do?
REREAD!
What supports the main/central idea?
key details
What is the author's purpose?
Why the author wrote the text.
This part of speech describes a noun.
What are the two different ways you can cite the text?
quote, or paraphrase.
You are beginning to answer the short response questions. What strategy should you use to organize your ideas?
RACCE
What do we call "the message or the lesson of a story?"
The Theme
An issue that the character faces in the story is called.
The Problem.
What is a story that is fake called?
Fiction
You are reading the directions for the ELA test. What do you annotate?
The type of text(Story, or Passage).