READY FOR THE LITERATURE KEYSTONE EXAM ANCHORS & ELIGIBLE CONTENT ON NONFICTION

WHAT YOU ARE AFTER HELPS YOU GET IT KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE AFTER HELPS YOU GET IT

MEET THE BEAST

KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE AFTER . . . WANTED GRADUATION REQUIREMENT

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This presentation shows the Keystone anchors aligned with the PA Common Core Standards and shows sample questions. By examining the questions and considering what the question is asking and what you need to know, you can set out to “tame the beast” and succeed on the Keystone Exam for Literature.

The Keystone Exams are rigorous. Students must go into the the exam knowing techniques authors use and key elements of fiction and nonfiction, research, and vocabulary. Students must be able to identify elements, evaluate evidence, sources, and determine purpose and effects. Students must recognize explicit information and determine inference, generalizations, and predictions based on evidence in text.

With study in all text assignments, formative assessments, activities, and practice sessions, you can succeed on the Keystone Exam for Literature. The Keystone Exams assess what “students should know and know how to do.”

This presentation focuses on READING NONFICTION

NONFICTION includes

For each anchor, one or more sample questions will be presented. Since you don’t have the texts that correspond to the questions in these examples, the purpose is not so much to guess at the correct answer as it is to determine what you would need to know or do to answer the question.

Focus your attention on the eligible content . Ask yourself: Do I understand what this is? Can I do this? What is the test item asking? How do I approach answering it?

What techniques do authors use? What are elements of nonfiction?

WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT READING NONFICTION What techniques do authors use? What are elements of nonfiction? point-of-view irony (verbal, situational, dramatic) dialogue ,narration, exposition, inference characterization (direct & indirect) flashbacks hyperbole understatement allusions figurative language (metaphor, simile, idiom, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration) imagery, symbol euphemism sarcasm, satire, parody, humor rhyme, rhythm, meter, verse purpose argument / position bias defense of claim conclusion facts, data, charts, graphics biography propaganda key supporting ideas, evidence comparison / contrast point-of-view (narrative mode: 1st, 2nd, 3rd -person) dialogue narration foreshadowing flashbacks allusion symbol (conventional, created)

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