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What do you do first when using TARZAN Strategy?
What is T: Title
Analyze the Title, what do you think the title means about the passage?
What does the first A in TARZAN represent?
What is: Analyze the Text.
What does R stand for?
Zero in on the Text
What is: What does Z in TARZAN stand for?
What does A stand for in TARZAN?
What is: Answering the questions.
What can you tell about this Title?
"The 3 Little Pigs"
The story may be about 3 pigs.
What do you do when you Analyze a text?
What is: glance/look over text and highlight and read everything that pops out.
Read all questions and highlight important parts, make notes on what the question is asking.
What is: How to Read the questions?
Reading the passage that has questions over it.
What is: Zeroing in on the passage with direction from Reading the questions.
Questions with specifically given locations/paragraphs.
What does N stand for in TARZAN?
Nailing down loose ends.
What is a Title?
What is: the name of a book, composition, or other artistic work.
What are important things to highlight when you are Analyzing Text?
What is: Title, Pictures, Bold words, Numbers, Headings, and Underlined words.
Why should you not pick your answers now?
What is: The passage has not been read yet, not all answers can be answered correctly with what we know from just T and A.
Do you have to read everything in the passage?
What is: No, you can use the highlighted areas and the questions to know where to look.
What is the purpose for Nailing down loose ends?
To make sure all questions have been answered, and that nothing is left to do.
What can you tell about this Title?
"Venezuela's Lightning Storms"
What is: the passage will be about lightning in Venezuela
Why is it important to Analyze Text?
What is: to find out key points of text, to know what the text is about, and to be able to find answers to questions easier.
Why do you Read the questions before the passage?
What is: So you know what to look for.
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What to do if you missed a question?
What is: Request it to be read again, highlight and make note on what it is asking, then Zero in on the passage to Answer.
What would be the best Title for this passage?
"Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played on a field by two teams versus each other. In baseball, a player on one team throws a small round ball at a player on the other team, who tries to hit it with a bat."
What is: "Playing Baseball"
"How to Play Baseball"
"What is Baseball"
What would you Analyze in this passage?
"1 Your out! When a batter swings the bat and missing the ball after the pitcher throws the third strike. The player can also be called out when the ball in play tags the base before the runner makes it to that base. "
Then read the sentences with the underlined words to help write a short definition.
What is this question asking?
"What is the most likely reason the author wrote this selection?"
Where should you read to find this answers?
"What is the main idea of paragraphs 4 and 5 in Baseball is an Amazing Sport?"
What is: Read paragraph 4 and 5 to decide why they are important in "Baseball is an Amazing Sport"
What is the correct Answer to this question?
"Based on the definitions below what is the best match to how the word runner is used in paragraph 10 in Baseball is Amazing?"
1. someone who likes to run for exercise, 2. Someone playing baseball running to a base, 3. Someone who goes to get lunch for everyone.
What is: definition 2, based on the clues in the question.