Testing Days + Structure
This is the number of testing sessions/days.
What is 2?
This is the number of times you should read each text in the test.
What is 3?
This is how many details from the text I must include in each short-answer response.
What is 2?
This category includes made-up stories or novels.
What is fiction?
This is another way the test might say "main idea."
What is "central idea"?
These are the kinds of questions you'll find on day one of the test.
What are multiple-choice questions?
This is what you are reading a text for the first time.
What is the gist?
This is what I should do if I see a question that says something like, "How does paragraph 5 support a theme of the story?"
What is re-read paragraph 5? (Or, what is, figure out the theme of the story and then go back and re-read paragraph 5?)
This category includes articles and memoirs (texts that include facts and real-life experiences).
What is non-fiction?
This is the message or the lesson of a story.
What is the theme?
These are the kinds of questions you'll find on day 2 of the test.
What are short-answer and long-answer (essay) questions?
This is what you should do the second time you read a text.
What is annotate?
These will help me figure out how to organize my paragraphs in the long-answer response.
What are the bullet points under the question?
In this kind of text, an author writes about the life of a real person (usually somebody famous or historical).
What is a biography?
In a story, this is what we call the feeling the reader gets while reading.
What is the mood?
This is something you should read at the top of every text.
What are the DIRECTIONS?
This is what you should do on the morning of the test, before the test begins.
What is, eat a healthy breakfast?
This is the one strategy Amy and Akeem really really really really really really really really really really really want students to use on the state test.
What is read the text 3 times?!?!?! (Once for gist! Second to annotate! Third to answer questions!)
In this kind of text, a person writes about their own life or memories.
What is a memoir (or autobiography)?
In a text, this is what we call the attitude of the narrator or author.
What is tone?
This is how much time you get for the test.
What is as much time as you need?
This is what you should do if you panic during the test.
What is: re-read, take a break but then re-focus, take deep breaths, remember your reading strategies, remember that this is not going to affect your grade or if you pass 6th grade (any one of these counts)
This abbreviation can be a helpful reminder when I get to the short-answer questions.
What is FADD? (Flip the question, answer, detail, detail.) Or RADD (Restate the question, answer, detail, detail.)
When I read directions that say "Read the article, then answer the questions that follow." these are some things I should be looking for in the text.
What are non-fiction writing, facts, a main/central idea, details to support the idea, subheadings, photos or charts with captions?
When a test question asks something like, "How does paragraph 9 support the plot of the story?" this is the Humanities tool I should use to answer.
What is the Story Mountain?