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If you want to easily mark up your text, you can use the PUMA strategy to help you.  PUMA stands for:

• P:  point of view U:  underline text M:  mention title A:  annotate
• P:  Perspective U:  understand text M:  main idea A:  answer questions 
• P:  Parts U: Underline important ideas M:  Main idea A:  Answer multiple choice questions
• Parts (label the parts of the text), U (Underline known words and figure out what they mean using context clues), M (main idea of each section), A (Ask questions to the author).

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When you get a new passage, a good test-taking strategy is:

• First read the passage
• First read multiple choice questions to know what you are looking for in the text
• First read the questions then start answering them
• Read the passage then guess

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The peanut is a humble plant with hundreds of functions. Most peanuts are roasted in their shells and lightly salted. About half the peanuts eaten in the United States are ground into a thick paste called peanut butter. The rich oil made from peanuts is good for frying foods and is used for oiling machines and making soaps and paint. Even peanut shells are used to make plastics and to fertilize soil.

• Why peanut oil is used for frying
• Why peanut shells make good fertilizer
• How peanut butter is made
• The many uses of the peanut

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Are you sure that you want to spend your money on a remote control car?

• declarative
• imperative
• interrogative
• exclamatory

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What happened the day after Stanley carried Zero up the mountain?

• Stanley's father invented a cure for foot odor.

• Clyde Livingston contacted Stanley's father about a commercial.

• Stanley's lawyer visited Camp Green Lake to help release Stanley.

• Zero's mother started looking for Zero.

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Who are the factionless?

• The rich, who are part of Abnegation

• The coolest people around

• The poor, who do not belong

• The leaders of the 5 factions

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What was the purpose of the electrical mice?

• Their purpose was to complain.

• Their purpose was to let the dog inside.

• Their purpose was to help cook.

• Their purpose was to clean the house.

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Cove, why can't you sign into AR?

• Declarative

• Imperative

• Interrogative

• Exclamatory

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What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the main idea?

• Who is the main character?

• What is one important detail?

• What is the author's main point/message in this text?

• What is the event being discussed in the text?

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When using this Reading Strategy, you the reader are asking yourself questions to see if the text makes sense.

• Inferring

• Predicting

• Make-believing

• Questioning

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