Ready, Set, Go

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Ready, Set, Go EOG
Skills

• Presented by Lora Drum
• CCS English Language Arts Curriculum Specialist

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EOG (Reading) What does it look like?

• 8 total selections (3-5)
• 50 items (3-5)
• 9 total selections (6-8)
• 56 items (6-8)
• The test includes both literary (60) and
  informational (40) selections.

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• Its a power test!
• No time limit
• Well almost
• 4 hours maximum

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Lets take a look at the selections
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Literary Selections

• 2 Fiction selections
• (short stories, fairy tales, myths, porquois)
• 1 Nonfiction selection
• (biography, essay, letter, journal)
• 1 Poetry selection (3-5)
• 2 Poetry selections (6-8)

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Informational Selections

• 2 Content selections
• (science, social studies, art, music, etc.)
• 1 Consumer/Directions selection (recipes,
  how-tos, instructions, etc.)

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Lets look more closely at a selection to see
what is expected of your child..

• State released selections
• Vocabulary is one of the keys to making sure that
  your child understands the question

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Lets look at some terms you child must know

• persuade
• inform
• entertain
• influence
• approximately
• importance
• situation
• elaborate
• experience
• influence
• mood/tone
• main idea

• authors purpose
• genre
• selection
• italics
• asterisk
• parenthesis
• figures/table
• stanza
• most likely
• according to
• similar
• characteristics

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What can I do at home to help my child be
prepared?...

• Read nightly with your child
• Periodically, stop your child as he/she is
  reading and ask them to summarize what has just
  been read
• Encourage your child to reread portions of text
  that they may not understand
• Expose your child to consumer text examples
  (recipes, brochures, charts, tables, newspapers,
  magazines, cereal boxes, junk mail, etc.)

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Conclusion

• Questions?
• Comments?
• Lora_Drum_at_catawbaschools.net