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When answering multiple choice questions, what is a strategy you could use?
Choose the answer with the least information
Eliminate the answers you know are not correct
Choose the answer with negative information
Guess the answer
2
When would you select "false" as an answer?
When you don't agree with the statement/answer
When only a part of the statement/answer is true
When the entire statement is true
When the statement says "always" or "never"
3
What is dialogue in a story?
What the characters look like
What the characters say out loud
Everything that is in quotes (" ")
A description of the setting
4
TRUE/FALSE questions: if the answer has "always," "never," "all," or "none." It is probably...
True
False
5
If you are stuck on a question, what is the BEST thing you should do?
Pick the shortest answer
Bookmark the question & go back to it later
Keep trying to figure it out
Take a guess
6
What should you include in the first sentence of each body paragraph (essay)?
A sentence restating the prompt
A sentence that summarizes the main idea of the paragraph
Your first piece of evidence that will prove your point
An interesting fact or idea
7
If an essay says "explain how the author reveals that unicorns exist" what kind of essay is it?
Narrative
Persuasive
Compare and Contrast
Analysis
8
If an essay asks you to compare and contrast 2 texts what do you need to include in your essay?
2 paragraphs
Evidence that proves both texts are similar
Evidence from both texts that prove your point
Detailed information about the most important text
9
Before starting to write an essay, what should you do FIRST?
Write down your thesis
Underline each part of the prompt you must answer
Find evidence from the text(s)
Write the easiest part of the prompt first
10
What is a good transition to use when including an example in your essay?
Therefore...
For instance...
Because...
Also...
11
If you do not know how to spell a word, what is something you should
NOT
do?
Check if the word is used in the text somewhere
Use another word that means the same thing
Sound it out in your head
Forget about it
12
What is
NOT
a good strategy to use
before
reading a text....
Look through the different pictures
Read the headings or titles
Only read the first sentence of each paragraph
Look at the multiple choice questions and essay prompt
13
What is the
main idea
of a passage?
The most interesting idea
Details, facts, & examples
What the author wants you to know
The most important idea
14
What is the first thing you should write when writing a narrative?
Introduction to setting
Introduction to characters
Dialogue
A hook
15
Which is NOT a good strategy to use when answering multiple choice questions?
Eliminate the answers that you know are not correct
Keep on changing your answer
Choose the answer with the most information
Guess the answer in your head before reading the options
16
What is a strategy you can use if you need to
write
more for a narrative essay?
Add random words
Add more descriptive detail
Add more commas
Add longer endings to words
17
If you are having trouble understanding something you are reading, what should you do?
Stop and reread
Take a guess on what the sentence(s) mean
Continue reading anyway
Skip to the end
18
TRUE/FALSE: If the answer is more detailed and more specific, it is probably the most correct
True
False
19
What is the map (to the right) giving information about?
Amount of wealth
State of peace
The different continents
Average rainfall
20
Non fiction is...
A text based on real facts and information
A made up story
21
When you don't know what a word means, what should you do?
Ask the teacher
Skip the word
Use the surrounding sentence for context clues
Take a guess
22
TRUE or FALSE: The first answer you chose is usually the correct one
True
False
23
If an essay prompt asks you to "defend" something, what kind of essay is it?
Compare and Contrast
Narrative
Analysis
Persuasive
24
The night before the test, what is one important thing to do?
Play Fortnite until midnight
Use snapchat until your fingers fall off
Browse YouTube until you enter the dark web
Go to bed early and get plenty of sleep
25
If an essay says "write the story from a different character's POV" what kind of essay is it?
Compare and Contrast
Explaination
Analysis
Narrative
26
What is a strategy to use if you need to write
more
for an analysis essay?
Use the same evidence more than once
Restate your sentences
Add textual evidence (direct words from the text)
Add more transition words (and, because, also)
