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You can teach your child how to pass a reading test by teaching simple test strategies. The most important strategy is to teach your child how to mark up a reading test. To clarify, marking up a test is similar to making notes in a margin, or next to the story or passage. Most importantly, …
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Children can pass reading tests by learning how to identify and define unknown vocabulary words in a sentence. Children learn figure out new words in a sentence by using context clues. Context Clues Using Context clues is learning how to answer a vocabulary question by identifying the clues or hints surrounding the new word. The hints can …
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Part 4 A story map is organized in thought -provoking order. However, this is to keep the reader’s interest. This organized order is called the story's plot . A story plot must have a beginning, a middle and an end. In other words, a story plot centers around the events in a story …
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What's In A Reading Test? A reading test almost always requires that the reader answer questions about the characters in a fictional story. A good fiction story gives its characters animated and sometimes exaggerated personalities. In a reading test a reader should be able to recognize and analyze those personalities and answer questions about those …
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How does a child with such a robust reading ability fail a reading test? Here’s why.
