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| How can reading the introduction on a test help you? |
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| Learn important information and get brain ready |
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Words or phrases that appeal
to your sense of sight,
hearing, smell, taste, or touch |
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Words or phrases that appeal
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hearing, smell, taste, or touch |
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Words or phrases that appeal
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hearing, smell, taste, or touch |
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| a made-up story that could happen |
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why and
because and reasons |
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Clue words for cause and effect, if you see them on a test: I will
look above and below to find
the cause and effect |
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A nonfiction text that
gives information
about someone's life |
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How can you tell
there is rhyme |
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read the last word
of each line |
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| a comparison using like or as |
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when human characteristics are given to a non-human object
Example: The cat danced around the toy mouse before pouncing on it. |
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| How do authors usually start nonfiction? |
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| With a question or fact to grab the reader's attention |
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| how many words or syllables in a line |
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| the person who wrote the poem |
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| the character or narrator speaking in the poem or story |
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| a story or poem that tells a story |
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| Strategies to figure out word meaning questions |
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-- cover up ending or beginning of word
-- insert definition into sentence
-- look for clues around the word in the paragraph |
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| How to determine main idea |
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-- look at subheading
-- look for repeating words or ideas
-- look for pop-out sentence |
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| The words above a paragraph or group of paragraphs that tell you what they will be about |
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| words beneath a photograph that describes it |
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a box with text in it
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Words or phrases that appeal
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| the events of the story around problem and solution |
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| the paragraphs beneath a subheading have the name of that subheading |
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Words or phrases that appeal
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| words around a tricky word that are clues of its meaning |
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statement
Example: Which statement shows... |
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supported by
Example: Which idea from the selection is supported by the photograph? |
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| This means it is connected to |
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| things outside of the paragraphs that help the reader like captions, subheadings, diagrams, titles, |
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| Why are taking breaks important? |
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| Without taking breaks, your brain will rush. You don't want to get tricked! |
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| How will you show work on the computer during the STAAR test? |
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| highlighting, eliminator, |
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| Why is reading the title of the selection important? |
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| It will get your brain ready for the kind of text you are about to read. |
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| What should you be thinking about when you read fiction? |
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| What is the character's problem and how are they changing? |
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| This key word reminds you they are asking about imagery or visualizing |
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| What do you fill the grid with for a fiction passage? |
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| Character, Setting, Conflict, Resolution |
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| What do you fill the grid with for a nonfiction passage? |
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| Write main idea and supporting details in the sections of the article |
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