Harry Potter Houses
Testing Strategies
RACE Strategy
Writing Process
All About Ms. Burks
100

These people are considered kind and loyal.

What is Hufflepuff?

100

Reading the text again to help with understanding.

What is re-reading?

100

Typing an answer to the question.

What is answer the question?

100

Making a list of all of your ideas and organizing them.

What is Brainstorming or Planning?

100

How many children does Ms. Burks have?

What is 2? 5 with stepchildren

200

These people are considered to be brave and chivalrous.

What is Gryffindor?

200

A tool used to find the meaning of unfamiliar words.

What is a dictionary?

200

Quoting the text to prove your answer.

What is Cite Evidence?

200

Writing down ways to explain your idea.

What is developing ideas?

200

What is Ms. Burks favorite color?

What is pink?

300

These people are considered to be cunning and learners.

What is Ravenclaw?

300

Stating the beginning, middle, and end of a text or the main ideas of a text.

What is a summary?

300

Developing your answer with more information.

What is Explaining your Answer?

300

Writing an introduction, developed ideas, and conclusion.

What is Drafting?

300

What type of pet does Ms. Burks have?

What is a cat?

400

These people are considered ambitious and deeply loyal.

What is Slytherin?

400

Making notes about text.

What is annotate?

400

Saying the prompt as a statement.

What is Restating the Prompt?

400

Changing the words in your essay to make the essay sound more clear and descriptive.

What is revising?

400

How old is Ms. Burks?

What is 37?

500

Ms. Burks would be sorted into this Hogwarts house.

What is Gryffindor?

500

Highlighting/Marking support for an answer from the text.

What is text evidence?

500

2 things needed to complete every sentence.

What is capitalization and punctuation?

500

Fixing your essay for capitalization, punctuation, and other grammar mistakes.

What is editing?

500

How long has Ms. Burks been a teacher?

What is 11 years?

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