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What should you do before reading a passage?
Read the title, introduction, directions, and text features
What should you underline while reading?
Main ideas and key details
Topic, text teaching, author's point of view
What is the name of the skill you should use to answer multiple choice?
Process of elimination
Restate the Prompt/Question
Answer the Question
Cite Evidence
Explain the evidence
What should you always write down before reading?
genre
What do you write in the margins when annotating?
jots to answer the thinking jobs
What are the thinking jobs for fiction?
character, problem, solution, lesson learned
What should you do first after reading the question?
Annotate key words or phrases in the question.
How many pieces of evidence should you have in an extended response
2
True or False: You should start answering questions before reading the passage.
False
What are the parts of the four square
2 boxes for the jots
1 box for main idea chart
1 box for answers (multiple choice or short response)
What are the thinking jobs for poetry?
Literal Meaning & Deeper Meaning
Before looking at the choices, what should you do?
Think: What is this question really asking me?
What should your first sentence always be in a short response?
A claim