AVID: Reading Test Review

An inference is...

• Text evidence + what you know
• Retelling a text
• Making a guess without evidence
• Information written directly into the text.

Simile or Metaphor?
The assignment was a breeze.

• Simile
• Metaphor

When you use evidence to make a guess, you are using the reading strategy called ____.

• Connect
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Infer/Predict

There is a child sleeping upstairs quietly, when all of a sudden there is a loud "THUMP!"  We can infer that:

• The child continued to sleep calmly
• The child fell out of bed
• The child was eating a bag of chips
• The child was reading a book

Simile or Metaphor?
This house is as clean as a whistle.

• Simile
• Metaphor

A story is considered a

• Poem
• Speech
• Theme
• Narrative

Highlighting and annotating are techniques that can

• add to the reader's understanding
• make it difficult to understand main ideas
• express your artistic ability
• have no benefit at all

Author's Intent: An “X-men” comic book.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Annotation is a note made while reading text. 

• True 
• False

To make an inference you take what you know, and what the author tells you to….

• come up with something the author doesn't tell you.
• know the wrong answer.
• not think about the story at all.
• stop reading.