Questions I ask when reading:

Did you venture through the passage to discover if it is fiction or non-fiction?

So, now you have a purpose:

• Do you see characters? Do you see text features? Is it a poem? (This helps determine what kind of questions you need to ask yourself while reading.)

• What are you going to be looking for?

• What is important in your question stems?

• Have you highlighted/boxed key words in the question?

• Were you able to eliminate any of the answer choices?

• Have you used your "scratch" paper to take any important notes from your question stems?

• Have you found your proof/evidence?

Writing:  All essays will be typed on the computer. 

Essays are written from a prompt given. The whole essay will need to answer the prompt using evidence and elaboration. 

We will begin with stretching sentences (practicing with sentence variety)

We will move to writing introductions and conclusions.

We will then work with main idea body paragraphs.

We will finally work with complete essays.

Main Idea = topic + point

Essays will be 4 paragraphs including:

1 - introduction paragraph  =  (Hook/Introduction Style Sentences, Controlling Idea (CI), Preview points #1 and #2

2 - Main Idea #1 with supporting elaboration and evidence and a personal story tie-in. Wrap-up sentence needed at the end.

3 - Main Idea #2 with supporting elaboration and evidence and a personal story tie-in. Wrap-up sentence needed at the end.

4 - concluding paragraph  =   (Outro Hook (It all boils down to this!), restate the CI, Look back to Points #1 and #2, Advice)

Questions I ask when working with math:

• What is the question asking you? 

• Did you box key words / numbers?

• Is there any information there that is trying to trick you?

• Did you draw a picture to help with understanding?

• Did you eliminate any of the answers because they do not LOGICALLY make sense?

• Did you show your work?

• Did you double check?

• Did you plug your answer back in to see if it makes sense?

Working on Reading Skills:

Working on Math Skills: