Reading Test Strategies

What do you do when you first begin a new passage?

• Lay your head down and give up.
• Figure out what type of text it is.
• Draw pictures all around it.
• Get a dictionary to look up every unknown word.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4C

CCSS.RF.4.4A

What do you do as you read a passage?

• Think about your reading by asking questions, highlighting important parts, and jotting quick notes out to the side.

• Write down every single thought you have.

• Outline every paragraph with your pencil.

• Highlight all of the words that look important.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.W.4.8

What do you do when you come to a passage that is on an unfamiliar topic?

• This is the end. Just give up and start crying.

• Think negatively the whole time you read it.

• Focus and jot about your thinking more. Make connections to what you do know to understand!

• Avoid the passage by going to the bathroom many times.

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.4C

What do you do when you come to an unfamiliar word?

• Immediately ask for a dictionary and look it up.

• Skip past the word and don't do back to figure out the meaning.

• Stop reading completely and stare at the word until you know it.

• Use your context clues to read around the word and think of what would make sense based on what is happening in the text. Use a dictionary to check if you are not sure at all.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.4C

CCSS.RF.4.4C

What do you do after you finish reading each passage?

• Immediately go to the questions and answers.
• Quickly jot what the text was mostly about.
• Re-read the whole passage again.
• Go to the restroom.

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RI.4.2

When you get to the questions and answer choices, you should -

• Read the question and answer choices without stopping.

• Skim through the question and pick an answer.

• Read the question, analyze the key words to figure out what the question is asking, and jot what you think before looking at the answer choices.

• Spend a lot of time writing down all of your thoughts around the question.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.3

How do you determine the main idea of an informational text?

• Only look at the title.

• Use important evidence from all throughout the text to get the big idea of what the text was about.

• Jot some details down from what you read.

• Only look at the pictures and photographs given.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

After figuring out what the question is asking, you - 

• ask for a dictionary
• pick an answer choice that sounds familiar
• read each answer choice and pick one that sounds right
• read each answer choice and go back in the text to prove AND disprove answers

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

What do you do if you lose focus during the test?

• Raise your hand and ask to take a quick break, then re-read what you were in the middle of reading to get back on track when you get back.
• Take a quick nap on your desk.
• Just keep going. You may not understand what you are reading but it is what it is!
• Skip around from passage to passage.

How should I mark my answers during the reading test?

• Wait until the very end to bubble in your answer document.

• Bubble quickly so you can spend more time reading.

• Carefully bubble on your answer document within each passage set.

• Bubble randomly throughout the test.