FICTION
A strategy used to analyze poetry
What is TPCASTT?
In the introduction of an essay or beginning of a constructed response, this should answer the prompt and tell your reader what you are writing is about.
What is a thesis (controlling idea)?
A strategy used to write short constructed responses
What is TEA?
A strategy used to edit an essay
What is CUPS?
A strategy used to revise and essay
What is ARMS?
A strategy used to analyze fictional texts
What is CAST?
Graphics, photos, headings, and subheadings: these are analyzed to help readers understand the author's purpose.
What are text features?
This constructed response can be a paragraph based on reading or possibly (re)writing a sentence.
What is a short constructed response?
Use this to show contractions, will + not or I + am, and possession.
What is an apostrophe?
When going over an essay, this step of ARMS should be used when word choice is weak and sophisticated vocabulary is needed.
What is Substitute.
A narrator only knowing the point-of-view of one character in the story?
What is third-person limited?
Determining why the author wrote a section or paragraph through use of text structures, text features, main idea(s), and supporting detail(s)
What is author's purpose?
Using this from the text helps prove your main idea.
What is text evidence?
The university of Texas at arlington can be corrected using this letter in the CUPS strategy.
What is C-Capitalization?
When reading an essay, this step of ARMS must be done when there are unnecessary words, phrases, and clauses.
What is Remove?
If _____ represents the feelings the reader get from the text, then _______ represents the author's feelings toward what they are writing.
What is mood and tone?
The ________ tells the reader what a paragraph will be about while __________ is used to back it up and prove it.
What is main idea and supporting details.
In a multipart question, these are the number of points awarded if Part A is correct, but Part B is incorrect
What is 1 point?
A sentence structure that combines a dependent and independent clause using an AWWUBBIS.
What is a complex sentence?
Adding this to your essay or paragraphs will help connect ideas and improve the flow between ideas.
What are transitions?
CAST stands for the following things a student should examine when analyzing a fictional text
these are the 5 types of organizational patterns (text structures)
What is compare and contrast, problem and solution, sequence, cause and effect, and descriptive?
3 points can be earned for __________ while 2 points are awarded for __________ for a total of 5 points on an extended constructed response
What is Organizing and Development of Ideas.
What are Conventions?
CUPS stands for the following things a student should do when editing their writing.
What is Capitalization, Understanding, Punctuation, and Spelling?
ARMS stands for the following things a students should do when revising their writing.
What is Add, Remove, Move, and Substitute?