What is step 1 to being successful on a reading passage?

• Prove it!

• Eliminate answers

• Read the whole story!

• Analyze the question

What is the only genre where every line is numbered?

• Folktale

• Poetry

• Fairy Tale

• Realistic Fiction

What is one thing you should ask yourself when eliminating answer choices?

• Is this true/false

• Do I like this answer

• Have I heard of this before

• Should I choose this

What is another thing you should ask yourself when eliminating answer choices?

• Do I like this answer

• Have I heard this before

• Does this answer the question I am being asked

• Should I choose this

What is a synonym?

• A word that means that same thing as another word

• A word that means the opposite of another word

• The definition of a word

• A text feature

What is an antonym?

• A word that means the same thing as another word

• A word that means the opposite of another word

• The definition of a word

• A text feature

What should you do if you don't know what a word means?

• Guess

• Look in the thesaurus

• Look in the dictionary

Where can you look to find synonyms and antonyms?

• In a thesaurus

• In your head

• In the dictionary

If you can't find a word in the dictionary, how else can you figure out the meaning?

• Read the sentence it is in, the sentence before, and the sentence after.

• Guess

• Re-read the story

• Make up a definition

How can you tell that you are looking at a proofreading passage?

• There is not that many words

• It is centered in the middle of the page

• Every sentence is numbered

• It will tell you