S.R.P.
Investing in the Question
Written Responses
State Test Design
Best Practices
100

The first thing you do when you start a new passage

What is preview the text to get an understanding of what the text will be about and to determine the genre and thinking jobs?

100

The reason it is important to invest in a question

What is to get an understanding of what the question is asking you?

100

The number of points a short response is worth

What is 2 points?

100

The number of days for the ELA State Test?

What is 2 days?

100

The three things you should do the night before the exam

What is

1. Go to bed early?

2. Lay out your clothes?

3. Eat a healthy dinner?

200

First steps when I invest in a multiple choice question

What is cover up the answer choices?

What is reading and circling the important parts of the question to make sure I understand?

200

The type of question 

What is a main idea question?

200

The number of points an extended response is worth.

What is 4 points?

200

The number of multiple choice questions for each passage.

What are 6 multiple choice questions?

200

The three things you should do the morning of the exam

What is

1. Wake up early.

2. Eat a healthy breakfast.

3. Positive affirmations. 

300

The important thing to do before handing in my test

What is check your work to make sure my own answers match what I chose?

What is check I bubbled correctly?

300

The plan for answering the following question (must have all 5 steps)


1. Invest in the question.

2. Read the sentences before and after the sentence and mark my evidence.

3. Write my own answer.

4. Slash the trash.

5. Choose the answer that best matches my answer

300

The parts that must be included in order to get a Level 2 on short response

What is an inference based claim, 2 pieces of evidence, explain your evidence?

300

The total number of short response questions

What are 6 short response questions?

300

The time you should get to school tomorrow morning?

What is by 7:30am?

400

After I read and invest in the multiple choice question I need to do this before I can look at the answer choices

What is find the text evidence and write my own answer?

400

What is your plan for answering the following question:


1. Invest in the question.

2. Read the sentences before and after paragraph 7 and mark my evidence.

3. Write my own answer.

4. Slash the trash.

5. Choose the answer that best matches my answer

400

Sentence starters for introducing text evidence

What is in the text it says? Or according to the author?

400

The number of passages on the multiple choice day.


What are 4 passages?

400

One thing that will most help you pass the exam

What is having a positive growth mindset, showing effort, or the Strategic Reading Plan?

500
The thinking jobs for nonfiction and fiction texts

What is mostly teaching me about the topic and point of view?

What is characters, problem, solution, and lesson learned?

500

The type of question


What is an author's purpose question?

500

Once I finish writing a short response or extended response answer I need to check this before moving on to the next one

What is CHECK FOR GRAMMAR?

punctuation, capitalization, and make sure the sentences make sense

500

The number of passages on the second day of the test

What are 3 passages?

500

The best practice if you get frustrated while taking the test

What is take deep belly breaths, use positive self talk, skip the question and come back to it

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