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Non-fiction
By A from Delaware

If you have multiple copies of nonfiction material this idea works best.(But, you can still do it with individual copies)
Have the children write questions on index cards about what they read with answers on the back.
Then challenge the children by having them answer each others questions or play a game with the questions.
Also, since it's on the state test remind them that they can look back for answers and let them during the game or activity. They need to think and be taught how to think about key words to look for when scanning for answers in the text. Sometimes it's not that they can't

do it-sometimes it's just that they get lazy about finding answers. Let them find them and reward them when they do..

Also, when I give reading tests I give extra credit or a treat to students who put correct page numbers next to those answers that are "right there" in the story. There is no reason to get those wrong but for them to do that consistantly and then do it on the state test I need to do it over and over and over and over again until it is second nature to them.
It seems and is tedious but is necessary.

Sorry, I got long winded.