Description
When you are prepping students for tests, be sure to help them understand what questions are asking by studying test question stems.
One of our favorite activities for this is to sort test question stems by their focus. Making this an active lesson – rather than presenting students a list or reading one aloud – means students are physically engaged in the activity.
We use each set separately to match the text type we’re teaching, but before the state test, we like to mix them all to see if students can determine the focus on a larger scale.
This set includes more than 160 question stems to sort for these types of texts:
- fiction
- nonfiction / informational / argumentative
- poetry
- drama
And includes question types around:
- character
- conflict
- setting
- inferring / drawing conclusions
- figurative language
- author’s purpose / perspective
- theme
- plot
- summaries
- main idea, details, claims
- text features
- text structures
- vocabulary
- poetic elements
- dramatic elements
User guide is included with a suggested extension activity.
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