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| Predicting Answers Strategy | Answer the question in your own words and THEN look at your answer choices to see which one is the closest. |
| Paraphrasing | Putting the answer into your own words. This can be helpful if you do not the answer or you do not know the meaning of a specific word. |
| When would you use the strategy of eliminating answer choices? | When questions use NOT or EXCEPT. Also, when they ask you which one is correct. (There are other instances too, since you will probably use this the most) |
| Summarize the reading passages into what 3 categories? | Topic, scope, and purpose |
| What does the topic of the passage mean? | The subject of the passage and what they are discussing from a broad point of view |
| What does the scope of the passage mean? | What exactly they are discussing in regards to the subject |
| What does the purpose of the passage mean? | Why the author wrote the passage. Is it Informative, argumentative, or literary |
| What 3 types of questions will be on the Reading test? (MIS) | Main idea, inference, and specific detail |
| What is a main idea question going to be about? | You can find clues within the text to tell you what he main idea is. |
| What is a specific detail question going to be about? | They will ask you questions about specific details within the story. You can find those answers within the text. |
| What is an inferrence question going to be about? | This type of question requires you to use clues to answer it and the answers are not found within the text |
| Reading Look Back Strategy | Look back in the passage for a specific detail answer. Can also be used when using questions stems. |
| What is a question stem? | A question stem is a specific word in the question that you will look for in the passage to find the answer (Usually used for specific detail questions) |
