QUESTION TYPES
What are central idea questions assessing your understanding of?
The main idea of the text or part of the text
Questions about theme are asking
What is the lesson or message that can be learned
What is the question prompt?
If a question asks about the narrator's point of view, what do they want you to figure out?
What is what the author feels about the topic/how they see it?
Questions and TONE and MOOD are asking about...
What is FEELING?
When stuck between 2 answer choices, go back to this to clarify what it is asking ...
THE QUESTION-- make sure you are answering what the question is asking
Your inference is stated in this part of your RACE paragraph.
What is answer?
In an extended response for paired passages, a strategy for organizing your answer is to...
Use RACE to answer the question for each passage (2 body paragraphs)
Questions that ask what is MOST or LEAST important to include in a SUMMARY are really testing...
What is the main ideas vs supporting details?
If a question asks what claim is LEAST supported, how do you select an answer?
What is find the one that is NOT supported/developed with evidence
Often the answer to questions can be found in your...
GIST notes/annotations
In order to get a 2/2 on the short response, you must have these things...
What is an inference and 2 separate pieces of relevant evidence?
This is a logical conclusion based on what is stated in the text and what you know.
What is an inference?
Contrast questions are asking you to focus on
differences
How does the "cover up' method work?
Cover up the choices, find the answer in your own words, uncover choices
These are words and phrases used to move between ideas within and between paragraphs...
What are transitions?
If the question asks what a word or phrase from the text suggests, what are they really asking you to figure out? (hint: it will often be a simile or metaphor or figure of speech/idiom)
What is what the phrase means beyond a literal level?
What is the PLOT of a story?
The series of events that make up a story (exposition, rising action, climax, conflcit, resolution)
It is important to do this to the passage to improve your comprehension and help you answer questions
What is annotate and GIST?
If you do not know the answer to a short response question, you should...
What is: Restate the question, and cite and explain/analyze 2 pieces of evidence
You should have at least this many pieces of evidence in the extended response...
4- two for each passage