ELA CC Part 1 Regents Prep

What should you do FIRST for Part I: Reading Comprehension?

• Read the questions.

• Read and make sure you understand the directions.

• Read the text.

• Highlight the lines of text mentioned in the questions.

What should you do after reading the directions for Part I: Reading Comprehension?

• Read the questions.

• Read and make sure you understand the directions.

• Read the text.

• Highlight the lines of text mentioned in the questions.

What should you do after reading the questions for Part I: Reading Comprehension?

• Unfamiliar vocabulary

• Peoples' names

• Important events

• The specific lines of text mentioned in the questions.

 

After highlighting the lines mentioned in the questions, what should you do next to the highlighted section?

• Read the text.

• Nothing.

• Write the number of the question next to the highlighted section.

• Highlight Keywords.

What criterion do you use when identifying keywords and key phrases when reading questions on Part 1 of the ELA regents?

• Locate the verbs and the nouns that interact with those verbs.

• Words that tell me what the question is asking (verbs)

• Words that show a pattern and / or relationship that help me find an answer.

• All of the above.

What phrase repeats in the answers below:

a) The lack of insulin increases blood sugar.

b) The lack of insulin increases blood pressure.

c) The lack of insulin decreases blood sugar.

d) The lack of insulin decreases blood pressure.

• increase

• blood

• The lack of insulin

• pressure

A central idea is...

• a summary

• detail

• the lesson or the message of a story

• a counterclaim

What must not be included in a central idea?

• The characters

• Details about the story

• The setting

• All of the above

What criterion must a central idea include?

• A lesson about a topic like love, hate, family

• What happens to the characters in a story?

• Where the story takes place?

• What you like about the story?

What criteria must a summary include?

• The title and the author

• One to two sentences long.

• The protagonist, the conflict, main events and resolution

• All of the above