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Part 1

Module Content

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1What are the two reading content domains, roughly what share of the test does each make up, and what does each one ask the student to do?*

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2List the five steps of the process for every reading question, in order. Which step does Mike call the most important, and why?*

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3Why does Mike teach students to read the question before the passage? Give one example of how a question stem tells the student what kind of reading to do.*

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4Explain the difference between the prediction strategy and the elimination strategy. When is each one the better move? What is the filter question you ask on elimination?*

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5Name the five TRAPS exactly and give a one-line description of each.*

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6What is an umbrella sentence? Describe the two patterns students will see, and explain why transition words matter for finding the umbrella.*

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Part 2

Identify and Answer

Each question below is a real College Board question. Solve it, then name the question type. Note: this deck only has 3 practice questions, so Part 2 is shorter than usual.

7Central Idea (Medium). Biologists have predicted that birds' feather structures vary with habitat temperature, but this hadn't been tested in mountain environments. Ornithologist Sahas Barve studied feathers from 249 songbird species inhabiting different elevations, and thus experiencing different temperatures, in the Himalaya Mountains. He found that feathers of high-elevation species not only have a greater proportion of warming downy sections to flat and smooth sections than do feathers of low-elevation species, but high-elevation species' feathers also tend to be longer, providing a thicker layer of insulation. Which choice best states the main idea of the text?*

a) Barve's investigation shows that some species have evolved feathers that better regulate body temperature than do the feathers of other species, contradicting previous predictions. b) Barve found an association between habitat temperature and feather structure among Himalayan songbirds, lending new support to a general prediction. c) Barve discovered that songbirds have adapted by growing feathers without flat and smooth sections, complicating an earlier hypothesis. d) The results suggest that the ability to withstand cold is determined more strongly by feather length than feather structure, challenging an established belief.

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8Most Logically Completes (Medium). Dutch painters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often showed tables filled with large wheels of cheese or carved shards of butter. Some art historians, noting that dairy products were a major component of the Dutch diet, interpret these depictions as reflections of everyday Dutch eating habits. However, a group of researchers recently reviewed hundreds of food-related paintings and found that lemons, which could only be acquired in the Netherlands at great cost, since they had to be imported from warmer climates, feature in Dutch paintings of the period more than three times as frequently as dairy products do, thereby casting doubt on the idea that ____. Which choice most logically completes the text?*

a) dairy products were a more significant component of the Dutch diet of the period than lemons were. b) food was a more popular subject among Dutch painters than it was among painters from other countries at the time. c) depictions of food in Dutch paintings of the period should be taken as realistic representations of Dutch eating habits. d) Dutch painters of the period may have depicted foods for symbolic reasons rather than to show what Dutch people typically ate.

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9Central Idea (Medium). A common assumption among art historians is that the invention of photography in the mid-nineteenth century displaced the painted portrait in the public consciousness. The diminishing popularity of the portrait miniature, which coincided with the rise of photography, seems to support this claim. However, photography's impact on the portrait miniature may be overstated. Although records from art exhibitions in the Netherlands from 1820 to 1892 show a decrease in the number of both full-sized and miniature portraits submitted, this trend was established before the invention of photography. Based on the text, what can be concluded about the diminishing popularity of the portrait miniature in the nineteenth century?*

a) Factors other than the rise of photography may be more directly responsible for the portrait miniature's decline. b) Although portrait miniatures became less common than photographs, they were widely regarded as having more artistic merit. c) The popularity of the portrait miniature likely persisted for longer than art historians have assumed. d) As demand for portrait miniatures decreased, portrait artists likely shifted their creative focus to photography.

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Part 3

Teaching Scenarios

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10Your student reads sentence one of a passage, says "got it, that's the main idea," and picks an answer that matches it. But the passage had a "however" in the middle that flipped the argument, so the answer is wrong. What do you say, and what concept from Module 1.5 does this connect to?*

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11A student picks an answer and defends it by saying "because it was in the passage." The choice mentions something the passage said but does not answer the question being asked. How do you explain the mistake, and what is this trap called?*

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12Your student gets an answer right but takes two and a half minutes, rereading the same sentences and second-guessing. They then change a correct answer to a wrong one. What do you coach them on, and what analogy might you use?*

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13A student stares at a dense passage full of jargon and credentials and says "I don't get it." Walk through how you would use the process from this module to get them unstuck.*

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Quiz 1.5 — General Reading Comprehension

Module Content

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