vocabulary
comprehension
writing
miscellaneous
testing strategies
100
What the text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
100
when and where the story takes place
What is the setting?
100
beginning of a written response.
What is restate the question?
100
My goal on the NYS ELA test
What is do my best (and use CRAFT for every short response and essay)?
100
Find, Underline, Number
What is F.U.N.?
200
Words and sentences that surround the unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
200
evaluate and make judgments
What are drawing conclusions?
200
Use text evidence
What I should use in every written answer?
200
To tell about the main idea and its key details
What is summarizing?
200
Cross out, restate, answer, find evidence, tie it up.
What is CRAFT?
300

A point of view told by a character in a story

What is first person point of view?

300
An educated guess based on what you know and the details of what you see and read.
What is an inference?
300
Restate, answer sentence, text evidence, tie up this type of question
What is a short response.
300
supporting details can also be called
What is text based evidence?
300
eliminate a choice and answer this type of question
What is a multiple choice question?
400
Why the author wrote the text; to persuade, to inform, to explain
What is the author's purpose?
400
A central idea in a piece of writing
What is the theme of a story?
400
explain the parts of a 4 point essay response
What is answer each bullet with a CRAFT paragraph (restate, answer sentence, text evidence and tie up for each bullet)?
400
Structure that shows how events, ideas, and concepts are similar and different.
What is compare and contrast?
400
Check my answers!
What is something I can do when I am done?
500
To say what something or someone is like.
What is describe?
500
A message or a lesson
What is a theme?
500
It clearly answers the question that is being asked.
What is an answer sentence?
500
when I write notes in the margin
What is note-taking, stop and jot or annotating?
500
Something I can do to prove my answer is correct.
What is go back to the text and find text evidence?
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