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Multiple Choice Strategies
Short Answer Questions
Essay Questions
Vocabulary
Strategies
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One way to know what information to look for.

What is Preview the Questions?

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The strategy you can use to help you answer short response questions
What is RACE Strategy?
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For the essay question you will compare and contrast 2 texts... Compare means
What is tell how they are the same?
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Comparing 2 ideas using the words "like" or "as"
What is simile?
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The strategy you can use for answering multiple choice questions

What preview the questions, read the passage, underline what is important and eliminate distractors?  PRUE

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Cross out answers that are completely wrong.

What is Eliminate Wrong Answers?

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The first step in the RACE Strategy
What is Restate the Question?
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For the essay question you will compare and contrast 2 texts... Contrast means
What is tell how they are different?
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The name of a text that gives true, factual information
What is nonfiction?
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The strategy you can use to help you develop short answer questions
What is RACE?
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The answers given that you know can be eliminated right away

What are distractors?

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The last step in the RACE Strategy
What is Explain your answer or thinking?
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The name of the beginning paragraph of your essay
What is an introduction?
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When you give human like qualities to non-human objects in a text
What is personification?
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What could you do if you cannot read a certain word in the text?
What is use a word power strategy? Ex. chunk it
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What you should do as you are reading the passage for the first time

What is underline or highlight important information?

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What I need to include when I cite evidence
What is quotation marks?
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The name of the ending paragraph or your essay
What is conclusion?
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The gist or what the passage is mostly about
What is Main Idea?
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What you could do if you cannot pronounce a person's name in the text
What is call them by the 1st initial? ex. B
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Once you have read the directions and maybe previewed, or looked over the questions you must do this next.

What is Read the Passage?

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You need to include this in all of your short answer responses
What is text evidence or details?
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You need to include this in the body paragraphs
What is text evidence and details?
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another word for lesson or moral of the passage
What is theme?
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What you could do if you don't understand the meaning of a word in the text
What is reread the sentence and look for context clues?