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Put-It-Together Questions
are questions which require specific information from more than one sentence, or spot, in the text to be used to answer them. Answering put-it-together questions is like putting a puzzle together. You have to find the right pieces that fit together. The answers to these questions are NOT RIGHT THERE in the text. Part of the answer might be in the first sentence of a paragraph. The other part of the answer might be in the last sentence of the paragraph. All of the pieces of information need to be located and put together to correctly and completely answer the question.


What does a Put-It-Together Question Look Like?

1. What were Mike’s two problems?
2. Who were
all of the people
who helped Mike get his bike?
3. Which
different types of snowstorms are the worst?
4. What is the
sequence, or order, in which a cloud is formed?
5. List
three reasons why the America colonists wanted freedom from Great Britain:
6. Explain
two different ways you could solve this problem.
7.
List the steps you have to do in order to multiply 32 X 46.


Words that tell you to use the put-it-together strategy:


The bright red words in the sentences above are signals or clues that the questions require more than one piece of specific information to be found and put together to answer them.

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