CUB

Reading Strategies

CUB **Circle, Underline, Bracket **

**How to Answer Open Response Questions** **1. Read the introduction** above the passage and the bibliography if there is one. **2**. **Read the passage** and **__underline__** key and main ideas **3**. Do the following on the question. **Circle the action/writing words:** -explain -describe -compare -support -use details <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">-give a difference <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">-give a similarity

<span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">***__Underline__ the question words:** <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">- who <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">-what <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">-when <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">-where <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">-how <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">-why

<span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">***[Bracket]** the key/main words <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: center;">- vocabulary specific to that passage

<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px;">4. **Make** a graphic organizer to fit the question. <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px;">5. **Write** your paragraph