PSATSAT STRATEGIC TEST TAKER READING WRITING AND LANGUAGE

PSAT/SAT STRATEGIC TEST TAKER READING, WRITING AND LANGUAGE COMPONENTS YAACOUB M. HAMMOUD “HE WHO LISTENS WELL TAKES NOTES. ” JOHN DEWEY ATEL

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(A) TEST CONTENT / READING (1) Information and Ideas (2) Rhetoric (3) Synthesis

READING KEY TASKS (1) find evidence that best support your answers to previous questions; (2) identify how authors make efficient use of evidence to support their claims; (3) trace up the relation between an informational graph, chart, or table and the passage it has accompanied; (4) use context clues to identify the meaning of a word or phrase; (5) tell how an author’s word choice shapes meaning, style, and tone; and (6) examine hypotheses; (7) interpret data; and (8) consider implications

(B) TEST CONTENT / WRITING & LANGUAGE (1) Expression of Ideas (1) Standard English Conventions

WRITING & LANGUAGE KEY TASKS (1) edit usage and punctuation mistakes; (2) fix mistakes that have to do with the grammar and structure of selected sentences; (3) combine sentences and insure parallelism among others; (4) improve word choice (5) improve the way passages develop information (6) trace thematic and structural relation among paragraphs (7) interpret graphs, tables, or charts in correlation with the passage

(C) TEST CONTENT / ESSAY (1) Evidence (2) Reasoning (3) Stylistic Devices (4) Persuasive Elements

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