What's missing?
why would I want to be a pro athlete?
What is a capital letter?
Where you will take the ISASP test (unless told otherwise specifically by a teacher)
What is homeroom?
When something changes from one form to another. Also used in writing to move from one idea or event to another.
What are transitions?
The speaker in the story
This strategy is used when you've read through the passage once but you feel like you didn't understand it the first time.
What is re-reading?
My favorite season would be spring
What is a period?
You can only use them if they are wired and plugged in to your Chromebook.
When something is appropriate and logically related to the topic.
What is relevant?
To state the most important ideas, events, and details in a text in your own words.
Hint: SWBST
What is summarizing?
This strategy is used to get rid of answers that you know are not correct.
What is the process of elimination?
My mom lives in Colorado. However she is originally from Michigan.
What is a comma?
Exception: Medically necessary devices.
What is a paper bag?
An idea formed by combining text evidence and your own reasoning and background knowledge.
What is an inference?
The lesson or message of a story, often expressed as a general statement about life.
What is theme?
Tom is unsure of a question and he feels like he's using up a lot of time. He uses this strategy so he doesn't use up all of his time being stuck.
What is bookmarking?
The prompt asks the student to write a summary of a short story called The Lunch about a kid named Tim who eats lunch with his friends. The student starts their summary by writing the first sentence, "Tim bought a sandwich."
What is a topic sentence?
Your teacher cannot write these for you during the testing time.
What are passes?
To decide that something is true after considering all the information you have.
What is a conclusion? (conclude, concluded)
The most important point that an author makes about the overall topic of a text.
What is the main/central idea?
Dan is reading a paragraph and he keeps feeling like there is just too much to look at. He uses this bright tool to pick out shorter parts of the text to easily go back to.
What is highlighting?
The student is asked to explain how they know that their inference makes sense with the text. The student answers by saying, "Yes, because I know it."
What is text evidence?
This is the time you need to be in your homeroom. Failing to be in your homeroom by this time will mean that you will have to do the test at a later time on one of the makeup days.
What is 9:00am?
The process of looking at the parts of something in detail in order to understand it and make conclusions.
What is analyzing?
The author’s, speaker’s, or narrator’s attitude toward a subject, evident in the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing and other style elements.
What is tone?
What is point of view?
Claire has read the same passage and prompt multiple times and is trying to write her response. She looks for these to figure out what the prompt is asking for AND to make sure when she's finished that she actually answered it.
What are key words?