ATI TEAS 6 Reading and English Updated version 2021 with Answers 100% correct

Primary Sources - The “original” source - Need to determine it if is an original source - Examples: photographs, diaries, letters, eye-witness reports - If it appears in a newspaper on the TEAS, it will NOT be considered a primary source - Obituaries are NOT a primary source, they are in a newspaper - AUTObiographies are primary sources, NOT biographies (auto=self) Passage Types - Scan the passage for numbers (percent, age, year) o If you see numbers, most of the time it will be expository - 1.) Expository o Factual, like a textbook o Purpose: ALWAYS to inform o If asked where you would find an expository passage, the answer is always encyclopedia o If you look at the title of a passage and it says “The History of Gettysburg,” the word history means it is expository o Any kind of historical passage - Scan the passage for opinion words Downloaded by: beststudy | Distribution of this document is illegal o If you see words that indicate an opinion, it will be persuasive - 2.) Persuasive o Can be anything from an e-mail to a novel on the TEAS o Opinion words: should, good, best, seemed, & most o All it takes is one opinion to make the passage persuasive o Purpose: to persuade - 3.) Narrative o Tells a personal story o On the TEAS a personal story will be a narrative o Look for personal pronouns o When the passage uses pronouns, the majority of the time it will be a narrative passage o Works of fiction (ex. Harry Potter, The Hunger Games) o If you see dialogue (in quotation marks) it means its narrative on the TEAS o Purpose: ALWAYS to entertain