Test-Taking Strategies for Reading- Assessment

I should read the questions first before reading the text.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

If I do not know a multiple choice answer, I should

• Leave it blank,

• it won't count against me

• Read each answer, eliminate, and make the best guess

• Make a pretty picture out of the bubbles

Read ALL of the choices. Get rid of any choices you know for sure are wrong. Put a question mark beside the ones you want to consider. Choose the BEST answer from what is left. Which test taking strategy is this?

• Annotating

• Eliminating Incorrect Answers

• Chunking

• Paraphrasing

Predict what the answer is BEFORE you read the answer choices. Select the choice that is closest to your answer. Which test taking strategy is this?

• Eliminating Incorrect Answers

• Annotating

• Educated Guess/Inferencing

• Paraphrasing

Highlight, underline or circle the details or key words in the questions.

Which test taking strategy is this?

• Chunking

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

• Annotating

What do the Theme and The Topic have in common?

• The Topic and Theme have nothing in common

• The topic (a word) is stated in the theme (a sentence)

• The Topic is the Opposite of Theme

A question where you have to infer, or make an inference, is

• where the answer can be found right there on the page

• where you must combine your own background knowledge with the information given in the reading passage

Read the answer choices, and plug each choice in to see if it fits. Use the context clues in the text and ask yourself, "Does this make sense?" Which test taking strategy is this?

• Guess & Check

• Annotating

• Paraphrasing

• Chunking

A "right there question" is

• where you must look in two or more places for the answer and then make an intelligent guess

• where the answer can be found right there on the page

• where you must combine your own background knowledge with the information given in the reading passage

What is a Theme?

• The Main Idea

• The Lesson/Moral

• The Mood

• The Setting