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Test Taking Strategies
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Review strategies and skills to be prepared for the reading Benchmark!
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Sensory language...
means exactly what it says
provides factual information
is using similes and metaphors
uses descriptive details to appeal to the 5 senses
2
Theme is something that is found in all of the following genres except...
poetry
nonfiction
traditional literature
fiction
3
If you are having a hard time deciding on the right answer, it is best to...
C. close your eyes and circle something
D. both A and B
A. go back and reread the text
B. use process of elimination to get rid of nonsense answers
4
BONUS: On the benchmark, you are going to give how much effort?
90%
80%
110%
100%
5
When finding the meaning of a word, it is best to...
all of the above
replace the word with what makes sense
think about the part of speech
read around to find clues
6
If you don't know what a word means in an answer choice you should...
look it up in a dictionary
cross it out and not choose it
always make that choice your answer
7
When a question asks you about a section of the text, it wants you to focus on...
the whole text
part of the text
the end of the text
the text features
8
When a question asks you to conclude or infer, you must...
D. both A and B
B. use the text clues
C. find the main idea
A. use your schema
9
A fiction text has all of the following story elements except:
setting
rhyming words
characters
problem
10
You know a text is nonfiction if it contains...
a title
a diagram
challenging words
paragraphs
11
What strategy should you use when looking for context clues to find the meaning of a word?
read two words before and two words after
reread the whole selection
read just the sentence the word is in
read around the sentence above and below
12
When a question asks you about the selection, it is asking you to focus on...
the whole text
a sentence
a paragraph
part of the text
13
The title is important to think about because it...
answers all the questions
gives the author's purpose
hints what the main idea of the text is about
provides the theme of the text
14
Dialogue, or conversation between two or more people, is MOSTLY found in what genre?
nonfiction
poetry
fiction
biography
15
To effectively prove your answers you must...
underline the part of the text that supports your answer
just go back and reread the text
underline any part of the text
write out why you chose the answer next to the answer choice
16
Which genre is important to read multiple times for understanding?
biography
poetry
non-fiction
fiction
17
What strategy helps you think about the photographs and pictures in a text?
don't look at the pictures provided, just read the text
glance at the picture once
zoom out, zoom in, connect
wait to look at the picture until the end
18
The first thing you should do when looking at a reading passage is...
look at the questions
stop and jot
preview the text to decide on the genre
start reading
19
To find the summary of a fiction text, what strategy should you use?
CPR
Main idea and key details
BME
CSP
20
The summary strategy that should be used in non-fiction is...
C. CPR
B. BME
D. Both A and B can be used
A. checks and X's
21
Theme is...
where the story takes place
the big event in the story
how the problem is solved
a universal message that is expressed in a text
