1. Working the Questions and Answers
Session 18: Reading Test
Working the Questions and Answers

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3. Check-in Question; Do you do every reading for classes that you are in?

4. Objectives for the day
Review content of the ACT Reading Test and some strategies that we have gone over so far
Review the Reading Basic Approach :
Preview – Read the Blurb and Map the Questions
Work the Passage
Work the Questions
Work the Answers
Work on our Reading Skillzzzzzzz

5. TRUE/FALSE READING TEST REVIEW

6. True or False: The ACT Reading Test has 40 questions that you are supposed to answer in 35 minutes.

7. TRUE The ACT Reading Test has 40 questions that you are supposed to answer in 35 minutes.

8. True or False: The ACT Reading Test has 4 passages that always appear in order.

9. TRUE The ACT Reading Test has 4 passages that always appear in order.

10. True or False: The order of the ACT Reading Passages is Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative, Humanities, Social Science, and Natural Science.

11. FALSE The order of the ACT Reading Passages is Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative, Social Science, Humanities, and Natural Science.

12. True or False: A Fetch passage is always Easy to Find.

13. TRUE A Fetch passage is always Easy to Find.

14. True or False: A Reasoning passage is always Easy to Find.

15. FALSE A Reasoning passage can be Easy to Find or Hard to Find.

16. True or False: A Reasoning Passage uses words like “states” or “indicates”.

17. FALSE A Fetch Passage uses words like “states” or “indicates”.

18. True or False: One strategy you can use if you feel like you can’t read all 4 passages, is to focus on just reading 3 of the 4 passages.

19. TRUE One strategy you can use if you feel like you can’t read all 4 passages, is to focus on just reading 3 of the 4 passages.

20. True or False: You always want to read the reading passages in order.

21. FALSE You may want to read the reading passages in order, but you should put them in your own POOD!

22. True or False: The first thing you should do when you start on a reading passage is Preview – Read the Blurb and Map the Questions.

23. TRUE The first thing you should do when you start on a reading passage is Preview – Read the Blurb and Map the Questions.
EX: Mapping the Questions – Underline lead words and star paragraph or line references

24. True or False: When you’re reading the passage, you should mark or underline lead words, never read anything more than once, and try to finish reading in 2-3 minutes.

25. TRUE When you’re reading the passage, you should mark or underline lead words, never read anything more than once, and try to finish reading in 2-3 minutes.

26. True or False: When you are given a line or paragraph reference, you should try to read only those exact lines.

27. FALSE When you are given a line or paragraph reference, you should try to read a few lines above and below for context.
EX: lines (60-64) -> You should try to read about lines (57 – 67) ish to check that you understand the context of the other lines

28. LAST QUESTION True or False: The 4 steps of our Basic Reading Strategy are: 1. Preview – Read the Blurb and Map the Questions 2. Work the Passage 3. Work the Questions 4. Work the Answers

29. TRUE The 4 steps of our Basic Reading Strategy are: 1
TRUE The 4 steps of our Basic Reading Strategy are: 1. Preview – Read the Blurb and Map the Questions 2. Work the Passage 3. Work the Questions 4. Work the Answers

30. Important Things to Remember about ACT Reading
Basic Approach to Reading
4 passages in order:
Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative
Preview
Work the Passage
Social Science
Work the Questions
Humanities
Work the Answers
Natural Science

31. Important Things to Remember about ACT Reading
More Fetch and Easy to Find questions tend to show up in Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative and Natural Science (the 1st and the 4th ones)
To do well on ACT Reading you need to get the right answers, not necessarily read the passage! Spend as little time as you can reading unnecessary information.

32. Other things that we remember about ACT Reading??

33. Practice Let’s go through one example together using our Basic Approach.

34. BREAK

35. Game: 2 Truths and a Lie Try to trick your table!

36. Game – Mix it up 3 Lies and 1 Truth

37. Trap Answers – why might these be tricky on the ACT?
Words out of Context
Words that are in the passage, but placed out of order
Out the Window
Things that don’t even appear in the passage
Right Answer, Wrong Question
May be true about the passage, but doesn’t answer the question

38. Trap Answer Stations! Can move with any group
Be sure to visit each station, read the prompt, and answer the Reading question at that station
At the end we’ll go over answers and answer two questions together as a group

39. The Golden Thread 11. As she is revealed in the passage, Jane Addams is best described as:
Politically radical but socially moderate
B. Passionately idealistic but bluntly pragmatic
C. Deeply religious and fiscally conservative
D. Publicly ambitious but privately cooperative

40. The Golden Thread 16. Which of the following statements would the author most likely make with regard to Jane Addams’s beliefs and achievements?
F. Jane Addams addressed the worst effects of poverty by living close to the poor she wished to serve and therefore learning best how to help them. G. Jane Addams was proudest of becoming the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace prize in H. Jane Addams worked with radicals to overthrow the capitalist system that caused grinding urban poverty. J. Jane Addams saw herself as a role model for immigrants and attempted to teach them appreciation of fine arts.

41. Great Job. Let’s try one more passage for 10 minutes
Great Job! Let’s try one more passage for 10 minutes. Page in your Course Workbook