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FCAT Terms
Reading Strategies
Benchmarks
Your Class
FCAT 2.0
100
repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words; used for emphasis or musical quality
What is alliteration?
100
What is the first thing you should do when you get the first passage?
What is preview the text?
100
This benchmark will ask you to use surrounding words and phrases to determine an unknown word.
What is context clues?
100
The cost of a full size snickers.
What is 4 tickets?
100
These are the three levels of questions asked.
What is low, moderate and high complexity?
200
A contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens.
What is irony?
200
Looking at the hints in a sentence or paragraph to define unknown words or phrases.
What are context clues?
200
This benchmark will ask you to determine the author's point.
What is main idea?
200
This is how many minutes you typically had to read each week.
What is 150?
200
What is the longest passage (in words) you will encounter?
What is 1500 words.
300
A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, object, or an idea.
What is personification?
300
You can quickly identify key words in each question and paragraph using this strategy.
What is highlighting?
300
this benchmark will ask you to determine why the passage was written.
What is the author's purpose?
300
The first thing you should do when coming into the classroom.
What is take out all the needed materials.
300
This is the percent of informational text that will be on the test.
What is 70%?
400
A figure of speech in which a statement is exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
these are the five active reading strategies.
What is connect, visualize, predict, respond, question?
400
This benchmark will ask you to read between the lines to draw a conclusion.
What is making an inference?
400
This is Ms. Mannion's biggest pet peeve.
What is students with head down?
400
This is the level of complexity for identifying the meaning of vocabulary word.
What is low complexity?
500
A personal judgment either for or against a particular person, position, or thing.
What is author's bias?
500
These are the 6 stages of the FCAT process.
What is preview, predict, preview the questions, read the passage, answer the questions, and check yo' self.
500
This benchmark will ask you to understand to analyze the organizational pattern of the passage.
What is text structures?
500
The goal of this class.
What is to pass the FCAT?
500
This is the percent of high complexity items on the test.
What is 25 - 35%?