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Multiple Choice Strategies
100

Go to bed early.

What should you do the night before a test?

100

Read the questions first then read the passage.

What is the order I should read the test?

100

Think about and plan what you want to write.

What should you do after you read the writing prompt?

100

Reread for academic words and the important information.


After you read the story problems what should you do?

100

Go back to the passage and find the answer.

What should I do if I'm unsure of an answer?

200

Eat breakfast.

What should you do the morning of the test?

200

Sound out the parts and try to blend it.

What do you do if you come to a word you cannot pronounce?

200

get scratch paper and jot notes or a web so I don't forget what I want to say.

What should I do after I think about my response to the writing prompt and before I start typing?

200

If I create it on the grid paper my teacher provides.

Can I use my numbers chart?

200

Import information, key words, main idea, possible sections where an answer is located. 

What words or phrases should you circle or highlight in a question or the passage?

300

Try meditation or deep breathing, come prepared, try to leave your problems at the door, dress nice that day.

How can you decrease stress levels?

300

Use the scroll tool.

What is a strategies to use if I am having a difficult time tracking my reading through the passage.

300

Reread what I have written.

What should I do if I get stuck or finish writing my response?

300

Yes. Then I turn it in at the end of the test to my teacher.

Can I use scratch paper to work out my problems?

300

review all of your answers by reading the question and the response you've selected.

What should I do if I think I am finished?

400

The growth between my first test and my last test.

Instead of just looking at your last score, what are we now focusing on more closely?

400

Ask to have the question read to you.

What should I do if I don't understand the question?

400

quotation marks, commas, periods, m-dash

What are examples of punctuation I should edit for?

400

Using the Race method in my problem solving questions.

How should I answer word problems?

400

you are eliminating choices you know are not correct, which will help you find the right answer.

Why would you cross through answers in a multiple choice question?

500

Our  recognition assembly, feeling good about yourself, not having intervention, learning more.

What are the advantages of making growth on the test?

500

Use the context to help figure out what the word means, see if there is a definition of the word before or after the text.

What should you do if you come to a word in the reading and you do not know its meaning?

500

Name the 3 types of writing styles that you may be asked to write.

Narrative Expository Persuasive

500

No. I have to do all my own computations.

Can you use a calculator?

500

Take a brain break.

What should you do if you are getting tired or cannot concentrate?