Critical Reading Strategies

1. Critical Reading Strategies

2. Critical Reading Section Strategy Review Sentence Completion Passage-Based Skim (label questions, box Q details) Actively Read (annotate passage) • Keyword • Relationships (, =, ≠) • Connotations (+, - , o)

3. Practice Section Evaluation • Sentence Completion Strategies • 5 points for identifying relationship words and connotations • Skimming • 5 points for correctly labeling the questions and marking specific details in the passage • Active Reading • 10 points for annotating the passage (Thesis? Purpose/main idea? Tone? Trigger Words? Etc.) [20 points total]

4. College Board’s CR Strategies • Mark the passage or make short notes • Use your knowledge and experience carefully • Read actively • If you’re having a hard time with a passage, read the questions first

5. On testing day… • Of course, you are the test taker, you decide how to approach the test. • These are universal strategies that test makers, takers, and companies emphasize as the most effective. • We are starting slow, then practicing over and over to make them second nature.

6. Quiz Thursday Vocabulary Review

7. Exasperation

8. Enervating

9. Extenuating

10. Ephemeral Or Evanescent

11. Emulate

12. Exemplary