1. Test-Taking Strategies
Look at the text type to decide
what type of writing it is.
(information, biography, letter, story)
Read all the text.
Read and put a cloud around the title.
(charts, headings, pictures)
Read the questions and
the answer choice.
Underline where you found
the answer in the text.
Put an X to the right of the
answer choices that are incorrect.
Next to the answer you choose
Check that you answered
all questions.
write which paragraph you found it in.

2. Every Test Taker Should Know
Main Idea
The most important thing the passage is about
Describe
To tell or write about something
Explain
To make clear or understandable
Author’s purpose
What is the author trying to do?
Infer
To draw conclusions using clues from the text
Sequence
The following of one thing after another
Summarize
Tell the main points of the text in your own words
Support
To give examples that help prove an answer
Mood or Tone
The feeling that the author expresses in the passage
- Fact
- Opinion
- A truth. True.
- An idea that a person has.
- Compare
- Contrast
- To find ways that thing are alike
- To find ways things are different
- Cause
- Effect
- The reason something happened
- What happened as a result