POINT 1: Use your brain to THINK WHILE YOU READ. Practice all of those reading strategies you've learned through the years (like visualizing, predicting, re-reading, and so on). This also includes noticing the clues in each passage that help you (like the directions, sidebars, the title, pictures, etc...).
POINT 2: The questions are the thing! We will teach you strategies to help you "translate" test questions, which are written in "super-English" into "normal English." If you do not know what the question is asking, you can't answer it, can you?
POINT 3: You must go back to the text to find evidence for your answers. Always. You must.
You also came up with the following strategies/take aways:
- Jasmine learned that we should eliminate multiple choice answers that don't make sense.
- Sydney learned how to re-read the passage to make sure her answers are correct and to make sure that the answers are coming from the passage.
- Joslyn learned that she needs to look at key words in the question to match to the text and to the answers.
- Christian and Dilon know they want to get better at reading questions more carefully.
- For Djasia reading the questions first is helpful.
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