MULTIPLE CHOICE
OPEN RESPONSE
LONG COMP
STRATEGIES
EDITING & LANGUAGE
100
These type of multiple choice questions require that you go back and find a specific fact that was stated in the text.
What are detail questions?
100
Open response questions use this amount of space.
What is all of the space they give you?
100
The rubric for this writing assessment uses this scale.
What is one to six?
100
When using process of elimination on multiple choice questions you should narrow down to this many answers.
What is two possible answers.
100
When editing your final draft of your long comp essay, what common tool can you use to check your spelling?
What is a dictionary.
200
These type of questions ask you to identify what a passage is mostly about.
What are main idea questions.
200
Open response questions are used to assess your ability to do this.
What is reading comprehension?
200
An adequate plan for a long composition essay would include these parts.
What is: introduction, body one, body two, body three, conclusion?
200
When looking at the context of an unknown word or phrase you should look at this amount of the text before and after the word or phrase.
What is 2 to 3 lines before and after?
200
Substituting colorful words for common ones -- such as "murmured" instead of "said" or "persevered" instead of "tried hard" -- will earn you a higher score on this MCAS task.
What is the long composition?
300
Sidebars, subheadings, and captions in the reading passage will most likely contain information that will be required to succeed in this task.
What is answering the multiple choice questions?
300
This common task from the Exploration & Adventure unit is the same as answering an open-ended question on the MCAS.
What is writing a claim?
300
The phrase "fully developed" in the essay directions and rubric, mostly refers to the use of these.
What are multiple examples.
300
It is absolutely necessary to use this strategy in order to get a high score on the long composition section of the MCAS.
What is make a plan first?
300
This two-part step in the writing process helps you make sure that you have stuck to one central theme in all paragraphs of your long composition.
What is making a plan and following it.
400
Vocabulary questions about common words that everyone knows are most likely tricking you by doing this.
What is using the word in an unusual way in the passage?
400
A level four response on the open response questions will use a minimum of this many direct quotes from the text and explain them this many times.
What is two direct quotes with explanations?
400
This sample paragraph scored a 2 for organization on the rubric for this reason. "If you are dishonest people will not like you and trust you. People will not believe you if you lie a lot."
What is repetition?
400
Taking brief notes and underlining in the reading passage as you read works well for these types of questions on the MCAS.
What are multiple choice and open-ended responses.
400
Two of the following revision strategies we used in the memoir unit can help you to add details to your writing when you are revising your rough draft on the long composition: (1) revising for description with nouns, verbs, & 5 senses (2) revising for theme with the again & again theme chart (3) peer editing
What are, revising for description with nouns, verbs, & 5 senses and revising for theme with the again & again theme chart.
500
You need to go back and examine the section of text the question refers to for these types of multiple-choice questions.
What is all of them! [Question types are: detail, main idea, inference, author's purpose, vocabulary, and author's craft/literary terms.]
500
This open-ended response question has this many parts that need to be answered. "How did Coleman translate her dream into a goal and her goal into a reality?"
What is two parts?
500
What is the approach seen in the below paragraph that probably led this writer to earning a six for "idea development" in this long composition essay? "All those little truths that were told, all those honest people, they are the ones who made this world the way it is. Much of our civilization is based on honesty."
What is making a connection to the world.
500
These two strategies can help you to figure out the correct answer on a vocabulary question even when you don't know the word.
What are thinking of similar-sounding words that you know, and substituting each of the answer choices into the sentence in the passage?
500
One of the errors below would demonstrate "Limited awareness of audience" on the MCAS long composition rubric. (1) Using texting abbreviations and style in your writing, such as acronyms like "b/c" or "ROFL" and using all lowercase letters. (2) Repeating the same idea over and over again. (3) Only giving one example in each paragraph.
What is using texting abbreviations?
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