Test Strategies
I do this first when I open the test.
What is preview the test?
This is when you make a decision about how a character acts in the story supported with evidence.
What is determine?
Jack is a cheetah on the soccer field.
What is a metaphor?
This is when you tell what is similar and what is different in a passage or passages.
What is compare and contrast?
I can make my writing stronger by including this.
What is supporting with text evidence?
When I locate the word, highlight it and read the sentences before and after.
What is vocabulary word sandwich?
This is when you use details from the text to explain your answer.
What is support?
The trees danced in the wind.
What is personification?
This is what the test will call it when they ask you to write a story.
What is a narrative?
This is when I go back through and look at my work again.
What is reviewing my answers?
This is the question I should save for last.
What is the written response?
This is when you find the gist of a passage to reveal the main idea. Usually after you've read the whole passage.
What is summarize?
My private jet cost my family an arm and a leg!
What is idiom?
This is when they want you to have a different character tell the story.
What is point of view?
This is when I do not hit submit until my teacher tells me to!
What is not submitting until my teacher says so?
This is what I do when I don't know the answer.
What is book mark a question and come back to it?
This is when you read closely to determine a deeper meaning.
What is analyze?
I've told you A MILLION TIMES to turn your voices OFF!
What is hyperbole?
This is when they want you to tell what might happen next in the story? OR
What is continue the story?
This is when I tell myself I am the best and will rock this test!
What is believe in myself?
This is the tool you use when you know one of the answer choices is wrong.
What is the answer eliminator?
This is when you gather knowledge from the text and your brain to come to a conclusion.
What is infer?
Boom! Crash! Splat!
What is onomatopoeia?
This is what you should do if you have extra time and want to make it look great!
What is COPS?
Write down a positive affirmation about yourself!
As long as it's positive! You get points!