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Sharon Harris
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Reading Strategies

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Questions analyzing character in fiction
Fiction passages rarely reveal character insights so you must make inferences (draw conclusions) and look for clues in the passage.
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Reading tips
Read the questions before the passage
Pay attention to character's thoughts, words, and actions a writer uses these to reveal the character
Let's do some practice
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Multiple Choice
How is Warren portrayed in the paragraph?
He is boring
He is busy
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Multiple Choice
What does Warren do for Walter twice every day?
He makes him food
He helps him with homework
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Multiple Choice
The details in the scene convey the woman's
anxiety
loneliness
anger
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Multiple Choice
The main character can best be described as -
a young child who is lost
a person who works at an airport
a woman in a foreign place
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Multiple Choice
The dialogue in the paragraph reveals
the man's dishonesty
the boy's indifference
the boy's cleverness
the man's generosity
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Multiple Choice
The dialogue in the paragraph reveals
working
in school
waiting for friends
related to the man
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Vocabulary
Don't know what it means? Look it up in the dictionary
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Reading questions and vocabulary
a question may give you the target word
it may provide the meaning in the choices
BUT you have to read the context
Let's do some practice
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For many, the idea of bungee jumping is an extraneous risk and thus not worth taking.
The word extraneous means ?
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The word extraneous means ?
extreme
unnecessary
extraneous: irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
unnecessary
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A far more pragmatic point of view is to take risks only when you have something tangible to gain from them .
Which word has the same meaning as "real"?
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Which word has the same meaning as "real"?
pragmatic: dealing with things sensibly and realistically
tangible: perceptible by touch.
tangible
Now some more practice
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Multiple Choice
In the first sentence, the word tantalizes means
beckons
teases
frustrates
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Multiple Choice
In the last sentence, which word has the same meaning as "beautiful"?
pinnacle
phenomenal
sublime
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Multiple Choice
In the first two sentences, which word has the same meaning as "came apart"?
unrolled
coveted
deteriorated
saturated
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Multiple Choice
In the third sentence, the word indispensable means
unbreakable
surprising
necessary
bulky
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