Here is a helpful site (even though it's Virginia's) that will help you with reading comprehension skills: http://www.iq.poquoson.org/languagearts.htm#nine
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Below is a list of terms and phrases that may show up in questions on the MSL:
Determine
Author's purpose
Analyze
Presented
Examples from the text
Use of figurative language
Identify
Author's claim
Refined
Counterclaims
How is the idea developed?
Theme/Central Idea
Point of view/purpose
Objective summary
Complex characters
Advance the plot or theme
Meaning and tone
Evaluate
Validity
Delineate
Inferences drawn from the text
In context
Inferred meaning
Cite
Explicitly
Be sure you are able to roughly define these before walking into the test!
Determine
Author's purpose
Analyze
Presented
Examples from the text
Use of figurative language
Identify
Author's claim
Refined
Counterclaims
How is the idea developed?
Theme/Central Idea
Point of view/purpose
Objective summary
Complex characters
Advance the plot or theme
Meaning and tone
Evaluate
Validity
Delineate
Inferences drawn from the text
In context
Inferred meaning
Cite
Explicitly
Be sure you are able to roughly define these before walking into the test!