FAST Questions
What informational benchmarks will be tested on the FAST Assessment?
What is Text Structure, Central Idea, Author's Purpose and Perspective, Argument, Interpreting Figurative language, and summarizing
This is what you should do if you do not understand something you read the first time you read it.
What is re-read?
Something you should do the morning of the FSA Reading Assessment.
What is eat a good breakfast?
The relationship between the words enormous and tiny.
What is an antonym?
The meaning of the idiom "it is raining cats and dogs."
What is "it is raining heavily, badly, or alot."
What should you look for in an author's perspective passage?
What is How does the author think or feel.
The topic plus the point you are trying to make about that topic is often called this.
What is main idea?
Something you should do the night before the FSA Reading Testing.
What is get a good night's sleep?
Since the boy hadn't eaten all day, he was extremely famished. This is a synonym for famished.
What is hungry?
Both oranges and apples are fruits that can be found on trees. However, oranges are tropical, while apples are moderate or subtropical. This is an example of what reading skill.
What is comparing and contrasting?
The amount of time students will have to complete each session of FSA Reading Testing
What is 80 minutes?
Clues in a text that help you figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words?
What are context clues?
All questions on the assessment should be...
What is read carefully?
The boy who cried "wolf!" often fabricated. Therefore no one believed him when he was finally telling the truth. The word fabricated means this.
What is "lied?"
This term means your test "will not be scored."
What is test invalidation? What is invalidation?
This is what you do when you retell the events of a story or retell what you read.
What is summarizing?
As you read, you should try to figure out the meanings of these?
What are unfamiliar words?
Beautiful is to ugly as kind is to _____
What is "mean."
Items such as cellphones, smartphones and Ipads that are not allowed during the FSA Testing.
What are electronic devices?
This strategy means the same as the phrase "read between the lines."
What is an inference?
This is what should be done to answer choices that do not answer a question.
What is eliminated?
The teacher was impressed that she had an accurate answer to the most challenging question on the test.
What is "correct?"