MP Reading - Locate Part 1

Mastery Prep - Reading Lesson 1

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Locate Part 1

​This lesson will cover questions that require students to search the passage for explicitly stated details. Students will learn the tactics of skimming and scanning to effectively answer these questions.

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Multiple Choice

1.1 Entrance Ticket - page 9 in the MP Reading Book

According to the narrator, an ordinary reader of newspapers considers that science is represented by:

• a gradually increasing understanding of the world around us

• a varying selection of sensational triumps

• a mad scientist in a lab coat

• a sophisticated system of carefully assembled knowledge

Multiple Choice

1.1 Entrance Ticket - page 9 in the MP Reading Book

The author indicates that it is a generally held belief that compared to an education based on science, a literary education is:

• superior

• inferior

• elaborate

• under-appreciated

Multiple Choice

1.1 Entrance Ticket - page 9 in the MP Reading Book

In paragraph 1, (lines 1-24), the author cites all of the following as examples of sensational scientific triumphs EXCEPT:

• airplanes

• wireless telegraphy

• radioactivity

• electromagnetic theories

​Learning Targets

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1. Skim passages effectively

2. Scan passages effectively

3. Locate basic facts and simple details in reading passages​

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Poll

Self-Assessment

Select the number that corresponds to your confidence level in your knowledge of this subject before beginning this lesson.

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​1.2 Quick Check

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• How much time do you have on the ACT reading test?

• How many passages are there?

• How many minutes should you spend on each passage?

​​Because of the limited per passage, you cannot read at a leisurely pace. You cannot read as if you were reading a book. Today you will learn and practice how to read effectively at such a pace.

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1.3.1 - How to Skim

​They say the three most important elements needed for a business to succeed are location, location, and location. The same holds true for the ACT reading test. The key to doing well on the reading section is to sharpen your location skills.

The answer to every ACT reading question is contained within the content of the passages, meaning that you will need to remember where things are.​

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1.3.1 How to Skim Cont'd.

​The first step when approaching an ACT reading passage is to skim the content. This allows you to get an idea of where important information is.

You can answer the questions more quickly when you know exactly where to go in the passage to find the answers. ​

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​1.3.1 - How to Skim

​1. Read everything as quickly as possible.​

2. If you are confused by a word or sentence, keep going.​

3. Underline or circle the unique element in each paragraph.​

4. Get in and get out! Read the whole passage in three minutes.

5. If your are running behind, just read the first and last sentences of each paragraph.

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​1.3.1 - How to Skim

​Turn to pages 12 and 13 in your MP student Reading book (blue book).

​You will have 3 minutes to skim the passage.

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Open Ended

Write as many topics or details as you can remember from the passage.

​1.3.1 How to Skim

​Turn to pages 16 and 17 in your student workbook.

You will have 3 minutes to skim the passage.​

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1.3.1 - How to Skim

Which of these topics do you recall being in the passage?

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king princess Jewish Charlemagne

war church Romans Spain

Germany France bravery guillotine​

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​1.3.1 How to Skim

Turn to pages 20 and 21 in your workbooks.

You will have 3 minutes to skim the passage. ​

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Open Ended

1.3.1 How to Skim

Compose one question based on the passage you just read.

1.3.2 How to Scan

​Reading over a passage quickly to get a grasp of the main idea is called skimming. However, skimming is not enough to get all of the answers right. Why is that?

In order to answer questions on the test, you will have to go back and scan the passage, searching for specific detail mentioned in the question. ​

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1.3.2 How to Scan

​For example, a question may ask in what way the author uses the term jelly-bean. You might not have read the passage thoroughly enough to know this right away, but you may remember the term jelly-bean from the passage and roughly where it appeared. This allows you to go back to the text and scan that section for information in order to answer the question quickly.

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​1.3.2 How to Scan

​1. Find the topic in the question.

2. Start searching that topic by paragraph.​

3. Move your finger along with the text.​

4. Look for anything that matches the topic.

5. Read five lines around that topic to understand the context.

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​1.3.2 - How to Scan

​Go back to the passage on pages 12 and 13 of your workbook.

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Find the following words as quickly as possible:​

• Worldwide prominence (which line?)

• Novelty (which line?)

• Manipulation (which line?)​

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​1.3.2 How to Scan

​Turn to the passages on pages 16 and 17 of your workbook.

How fast can you locate these words:

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• Mohammedan (which line?)

• Sole King (which line?)

• Roncevaux (which line?)​

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​1.3.2 How to Scan

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Turn to the passages on pages 20 and 21 of your workbook.

How fast can you locate these words:

• ​Beautiful chariot (which line?)​

• ​Resemblance (which line?)

• Ichor (which line?)​

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Multiple Choice

1.4.1 Set 1 (page 26)

1. According to the passage, a brooch worn by a person in early France would be most accurately described as:

• oblong

• penannular

• T-shaped

• cruciform

Multiple Choice

1.4.1 - Set 1 (page 26)

2. Based on the passage, the original safety-pin brooch design was made up of all the following pieces EXCEPT:

• the acus.

• the spring.

• the bow.

• the disc.

Multiple Choice

1.4.1 - Set 1 (page 27)

3. The passage states that the attitude toward the safety-pin brooch in the 19th century was one of:

• misplaced amazement.

• indifference.

• curiosity.

• unrealistic jealousy.

Multiple Choice

1.4.1 - Set 1 (page 27)

4. The first three paragraphs (lines 1-34) establish all of the following about brooches EXCEPT that:

• they have an extensive and important history.

• the first brooch most likely originated from a thorn.

• the ring brooch preceded the Roman brooch.

• the spring is produced by a turn in the pin.

Multiple Choice

1.4.1 - Set 1 (page 27)

5. The passage states that all of the following are materials inlaid to decorate brooches during the Roman era EXCEPT:

• bone.

• glass.

• bronze.

• enamel.

Multiple Choice

1.4.2 - Set 2 (page 28)

6. According to the passage, a lath is a type of:

• lobster trap that replaced hoop-net pots.

• fishing boat that transports live lobsters.

• net used to trawl in rivers and lakes.

• rocky mouth of a coastal inlet.

Multiple Choice

1.4.2 - Set 2 (page 28)

7. According to the passage, until 1865 it was customary in the fishery to set traps:

• close enough to shore to be reached without boats.

• individually with two-person boat crews.

• on trawls that could be hauled in quickly by one man.

• by scattering pots in different locations.

Multiple Choice

1.4.2 - Set 2 (page 28)

8. Based on the passage, smacks first visited Harpswell in:

• 1825.

• 1830.

• 1850.

• 1865.

Multiple Choice

1.4.2 - Set 2 (page 29)

9. According to the passage, the best fishing grounds in Maine are located:

• near Fox Island.

• between Deer and Mount Desert Islands.

• between Cape Elizabeth and Quoddy Head.

• west of Casco bay.

Multiple Choice

1.4.2 - Set 2 (page 29)

10. According to the passage, Maine's fishery can trace its history:

• from the west of the state and toward the shore.

• from the shore and into the east of the state.

• around the shore of the state only.

• around the rivers in the west of the state.

​Sum It Up

Skimming

1. Read the passage as fast as possible before looking at the questions.

2. If you are confused by a word or sent​ence, just keep moving.

3. Find the unique element in each paragraph.

4. Get in and out! Read the whole passage in 3 minutes or less.

5. If you are running behind, just read the first and last sentences of each paragraph.

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Scanning

​1. Find the topic in the question.

2. Start searching for that topic by paragraph.

3. Move your finger along with ​the text.

4. Look for anything that matches the topic.

5. When you find the topic, read five lines above and below to understand the context.​

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Exit Ticket

• Go to your Mastery Prep account.

• Use the drop-down and click on Mastery Curriculum.

• Find "Locate Part 1" and complete your exit ticket.

• You will only have 2 minutes to complete the questions.​

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Independent Practice

• Complete Set 3 (pages 30-31).

• Mark your answers on the Zipgrade sheet.​

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