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Figurative Language
Reading Strategies
Benchmarks
Test Taking Strategies
FCAT
100
A figure of speech which compares two things with the words “like” or “as”
What is a simile?
100
Looking over the text and skimming and scanning before reading. Looking at the text features such as the title, headings, etc.
What is previewing the text?
100
This benchmark will ask you to draw similarities and differences
What is compare and contrast?
100
This means excluding the choices you know are wrong
What is process of elimination?
100
What they mean when you are asked to give the passage a new title
What is another way of asking for the main idea?
200
Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words
What is alliteration?
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 essential message of the passage
What is main idea?
200
The first thing you should do when you are given the passage to read
What is look at the questions?
200
Instead of relying on your memory, you should do this when answering the questions
What is go back in the passage and find the answer?
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 and remember important information in each paragraph using this strategy
What is summarizing?
300
This benchmark will ask you to determine why the passage was written
What is author’s purpose?
300
Something important you do as you preview the questions, (HINT there are four possibilities)
Determine what the QAR is for each question
300
The reason the author wrote the article
What is the author’s purpose?
400
Language that appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
400
This should be previewed and read first before you begin reading the passage so you know what to look for
What are multiple choices questions?
400
This benchmark will ask you to read between the lines to draw a conclusion
What is making an inference?
400
While reading the passage, what you should be doing to the text
What is underlining the main idea in each paragraph, or writing a short summary of each section in the margin?
400
What happens as a result of an action
What is an effect?
500
An exaggerated statement used to emphasize a point
What is a hyperbole?
500
While reading the passage, what you should be doing to the text
What is underlining the main idea in each paragraph, or writing a short summary of each section in the margin?
500
This benchmark will ask you to understand the reasons WHY something happens and the RESULTS
What is cause and effect?
500
This will happen to you if you don’t follow the testing rules
What is invalidation?
500
What is used to figure out a meaning of an unfamiliar word
What is a context clue?