Transcript What are my MCAS strategies?

What are my MCAS strategies?
Let’s brainstorm!!
Can you name the
TIPS strategies?
T = Title
I = Italics
P = Pictures
S = Subtitles
Please Explain.
What should you do when
you see words in BOLD
letters?
Words with bold print say to you, “I’m
special. Please take extra time to
understand my meaning!”
Here are some examples:
• Why does the author mostly likely use the
simile, or comparison in the sentence?
• Based on paragraph 7, how would the
cockpit of Voyager best be described?
• In the previous sentence, why is the word
Voyager written in italics?
• According to the selection, what is the main
reason tourists travel to Antarctica by ship
instead of by plane?
What do you do when you
don’t understand a word?
• You look at the words and sentences around
it.
• Let’s look at an example.
Stream Monitoring
• People monitor streams all over the United
States.
• What do you do if you don’t know the
meaning of the word “monitor”? Let’s
reading around the words. Here is the
next sentence.
• Volunteers study both organisms that live in
the streams and land use around streams.
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Hmmmm, do you see it?
The definition is in the next sentence!
Understand the question.
Read the question and identify EXACTLY what’s being asked.
Circle the direction words.
Underline all important information after each direction word.
Count the actual number of direction words.
Check off each item as you write your response.
I’m stuck! What do I do
now?
You read the passage, and you are
thinking to yourself, “How am I going to
start my response?”.
YOU ECHO THE QUESTION!!!
Let’s practice!!
• According to the selection, drogues
have two important uses. Describe
ONE use and give information from the
selection to support your answer.
• What would be your topic sentence?
• According to the selection, drogues
have two important uses. The following
is one of it’s uses.
• Describe what Alice saw, heard, and
felt when she fell down the rabbithole. Use specific information from the
selection to support your answer.
• What would be your topic sentence?
• Alice saw, heard, and felt many things
when she fell down the rabbit-hole.
• Can you name more strategies?