ACT Reading

Weather reporters have to give out a lot of information. That's why they use pictures. The pictures help them tell us about the weather without using so many words. Weather reporters need to know where the cold air is. They need to know where the warm air is. They have to know where it is raining and what types of clouds are in the area. Their reports need to be correct, but they also need to be short. The pictures help weather reporters get the information out in a fast way. Which sentence best describes the main idea of the paragraph?

• Weather reporters need to know where the cold air is.

• Pictures help weather reporters get information out in a fast way

• Their reports need to be correct, but they also need to be short

• They have to know where it is raining and what types of clouds are in the area

Answer explanation

The text states using pictures is a fast way they get their information.

A strategy is reading the first and last sentence.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Luca’s grandpa lives on a farm. His grandpa has a big garden, and many animals. When Luca was little, he was afraid of the chickens. When he helped his grandpa feed the chickens, the chickens chased him, crying, “Cluck, cluck, cluck!” But his grandpa showed him how to shoo the chickens away with his hand, saying, “Shoo chicks, shoo chicks!” Luca still doesn’t like the chickens much, but he isn’t afraid of them now. He feels very grown up. What is the whole story about?

• Grandpa's garden

• Luca and the chickens

• Luca's favorite animals

• Grandpa's farm

Answer explanation

It states he was afraid of the chickens and talks about luca and chickens in the whole text.

Find key points to help you come up with the main idea.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When determining supporting details, what should the details help you understand?

• Main Idea

• What Albert wants you to understand.

• Questions raised by the main idea

• How to read

Answer explanation

Supporting details should help you with finding the main idea or leading up to it. To locate supporting ideas looking for key phrases o words.

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

On February 18th, 2021, NASA's new rover, Perseverance, arrived on Mars, a neighboring planet in our solar system. During a seven month journey, it traveled 470 million kilometers (300 million miles) to reach Mars. The exploration robot landed in a region called the Jezero Crater. Near the planet's equator, the crater is 45 kilometers wide (28 miles). Perseverance will spend two years searching for evidence of microbial life that could have existed on Mars billions of years ago. Learning more about the composition of Mars can help scientists better understand the planet's history.

Which supporting detail BEST supports the main idea that NASA is using a new rover to learn more about Mars?

• During a seven-month journey, it traveled 470 million kilometers (300 million miles) to reach Mars.

• The exploration took place in a region called the Jezero Crater.

• Perseverance will spend two years searching for evidence of microbial life that could have existed on Mars billions of years ago.

Answer explanation

The NASA talks about spending 2 years searching for evidence which is a key phrase.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

I was late ............. my car broke down.

• because

• consequently

• consequence

Answer explanation

Because is mostly used for cause and effects situations. You cant have a cause without an effect and it is vice versa.

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EFFECT: My stomach really hurts... What is the cause?

• because I ate too much Halloween candy.

• because I cut my hair.

• because i am sick

Answer explanation

The candy made the person stomach hurt. For you find the cause something has to happens always remember that.

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

What is third person objective Point of View?

• the narrator has unlimited knowledge and can describe every character's thoughts and interrupt their behaviors 

• The position which a narrator sees and understands what is happening 

• the narrator isn't part of the story, it can tell what happens to the characters, but it can't go inside their  heads and reveal what they are thinking and feeling

• I had homework last night 

Answer explanation

Third person is when the narrator just writes about other characters and isn't a part of the story.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

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At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared suddenly a man in cream-colors at the waterside in the city of St. Louis.

His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger.

The narrator's tone in the underlined description of "the man in cream-colors" is best described as _________________.

• romantic and deeply emotional

• distant and precise

• mocking and incisive

• distant and vague

Answer explanation

The narrator gives us a great deal of detail about the physical appearance of the man ("his cheek was fair...") and gives a matter-of-fact assessment of how he looks, what he is carrying, and who he is with (no one). There are no literary devices, nor flowery, romantic, aggressive, or particularly emotional language. So the best description of the tone is, "distant but precise."

Use the tone of a character’s thoughts

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Which of the following is the most obvious demonstration of the narrator's subjective opinion?

• "Pausing at this spot, the stranger so far succeeded in threading his way, as at last to plant himself just beside the placard, when, producing a small slate and tracing some words upon if, he held it up before him on a level with the placard, so that they who read the one might read the other."

• "it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger."

• "quite an original genius in his vocation, as would appear, though wherein his originality consisted was not clearly given"

• "earnestly seeking sight of them from behind intervening coats"

Answer explanation

in the option "it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger," the narrator offers an subjective judgement both of how the crowd perceives the man, and also, importantly, what was "plain" or obvious about the scene.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

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When a story is told in order, it follows a ________________ of events.

• theme

• setting

• exposition

• sequence

Answer explanation

Things have to go in order for it to sound right and be in sequence.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

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