1
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Types of questions
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Reading comprehension
Text completion
Sentence equivalence
2
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Reading comprehension that can be tested: 1-4
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- Understand individual word meanings
- Understand individual sentence meanings
- Understand paragraph meanings and large bodies of text
- Distinguish between major and minor parts of a sentnece
3
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Reading comprehension
What can be tested: 5-8
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- Summarize a passage
- Draw conclusions from provided information
- Reason from incomplete data/missing information
- Understand the structure of a text and how different parts relate
4
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Reading Comprehension
What can be tested 9-13
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- Identify the author’s perspective
- Identify the author’s assumptions
- Analyze the text and reach conclusions about it
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- Develop and consider alternative explanations
5
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How to understand text
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Active reading, asking questions, formulating/evaluating hypotheses, seeing relationships in text
6
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Reading comprehension specs
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About half the text is reading comprehension. Most questions about a paragraph long, some more than one. One to five questions per passage
7
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What are comprehension questions?
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Anything from defining a word to deciding if something supports or weakens arguments
