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Multiple Choice Strategies
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The first step in answering a Multiple Choice Question.
What is Annotate and Translate your Question?
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The first step you take when you see an unknown vocabulary word.
What is circle it?
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The first thing you should do when you start a text.
What is Read the directions and identify a genre?
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Which type of question is the following question: "Based on lines 1-10, we know that Jesse feels..."
What is Characterization?
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The thing you should never do when you have no idea what the answer of a question is.
What is Leave it blank?
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The 2nd step in answering a Multiple Choice Question.
What is Cover your answer choices, think of your own answer, and write it down?
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The second step you take after you have circled the unknown vocabulary word.
What is Charge it (+,-)?
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The thing that you do after you have read your directions.
What is interact with the title by charging it, or by making an inference about what the passage will be about?
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The strategy we use for Characterization Questions
What is S.T.E.A.L?
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The claim made to "comeback" at an argument.
What is a counterclaim or rebuttal?
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The 3rd step in answering a Multiple Choice Question.
What is Look at your own answer, compare it it to the answer choices, and eliminated the choices that absolutely don't match your own answer?
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The step you take after you have charged the unknown word?
What is identify the type of context clue present around the word?
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What should you do before reading a text with an SAR or ER.
What is Write down your LENS?
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Craft Techniques or Inference? "What is How does the author develop their argument?"
What is Craft Techniques?
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The way in which an Author makes a counterclaim.
What is State the Opposing Point of View, Acknowledge it, and provide evidence that counters it.
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How you choose between the distractor and the best answer.
What is reread your translation of the question, reread your own written answer, and pick the choice that most closely aligns with your answer?
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The step you take after identifying the type of Context Clue present around the unknown word.
What is use the context clue type to translate the unknown word.
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The strategy you use to ensure that you are comprehending each text you read.
What is Write Gist Statement?
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Craft Techniques or Inference? "How would the _____________ respond to the author's claim that feeding the poor is more important than space exploration?"
What is Inference
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Another way to say that an Author's argument is effective, strong, or Valid.
What is Sound?
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The way in which you know that your answer to your MC question is correct?
What is PROVE IT! Go back to the text and find the quote that justifies your answer?
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When you are asked what a word means in a Multiple Choice question, what should you do?
What is LOOK BACK at the text and see how it is used.
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Evaluate the following Gist statement: "Why Kate looks the way she looks" Is is weak or strong? WHY? If it is weak, fix it!
What is The Gist statement is weak because it doesn't explain the "Why" behind Kate's looks and would require the reader to reread the text. Fix: Kate looks the way she looks because she has recessive genes?
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The thing you need to do when asked to "Evaluate the soundness of an argument". How do you evaluate an argument?
What is Judge the effectiveness of the argument. An argument is effective if: -it makes a logical claim -uses sufficient and relevant evidence -provides an explanation of evidence used.
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The proper way to guess on multiple choice.
What is Pick one letter, and bubble that letter in for all questions you have no idea about.