Test taking strategies

When reading a fiction text, I should highlight:

• nothing, I can remember it

• plot, theme, and unknown words

• characters names

• Organizational pattern

When I am answering a question I should ALWAYS explain to myself why the answer is correct

• True

• False

When reading a non-fiction text I should highlight the following

• Central idea

• all supporting details

• answers to the questions

• theme

• plot

I will always ______ my annotation before I answer the questions.

If i start to second guess myself what should I do?

• Go back and look at every answer again

• Go back and explain to myself why I picked that answer using text evidence

• redo the entire thing

• give up and fail

when reading poetry, when I see figurative language I will

• high light it

• identify what type of figurative language it is

• highlight it, identify it, and explain what the poet is actually saying

• read the poem out loud to the class

If there is a question about Stage directions after I have read a drama I know that stage directions ask me about...

• The setting

• the way the author feels

• How the character should deliver their lines, what emotions they should show and what they are thinking

• what color dress they are wearing

If the question is asking about the the main idea of a paragraph what is the first thing you should do?

• guess

• try to think really hard and guess the right answer

• go back in the text and find that paragraph and reread it

• move on that question does not count

If I get tired and fall asleep in the middle of reading a text I should

• Wake up and keep going

• GO back and reread the text

• Give up and go back to sleep

• just guess on those questions

When you are annotating a question you should always highlight

• the most important words of the question that help me understand what is being asked

• the paragraph to find the answer in

• You don't

• The last word