The first thing you should read BEFORE beginning an MCAS passage.
What are the words in italics above the title.
100
Eliminating ridiculous answers.
What is a strategy for reducing the number of answer choices in a multiple choice question?
100
Answer
Evidence
Elaboration
What are the three parts to an open response answer?
100
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
100
where and when it takes place
What is the setting?
200
Questions you should ask yourself after PREVIEWING the passage.
*What type of text is this? (genre)
*Why do I think the author wrote this? (purpose)
*How is the text organized?
200
To help you understand what each question is asking
What is the purpose of underlining important words in the multiple choice and open response questions
200
1) TTQA- Turn the question around and take out the question words.
2) The answer has to be written in a complete sentence.
3) The answer is the FIRST SENTENCE in the open response
What is how do you format the ANSWER?
200
this type of word expresses an action.
What is a verb?
200
What the character says, does, and feels.
What is how you determine the character traits of a character in a story?
300
A reading strategy which helps you focus in on and understand one paragraph of the MCAS passage at a time.
What is BOXING each paragraph in the passage.
300
Name a strategy for helping to find the answer to multiple choice questions.
What is match words in the question and answers to words in the passage
300
Details from the passage that PROVE your answer.
What is EVIDENCE?
300
a word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
Solution
What is when the problem is solved
400
Text features you should study before reading the passage.
What are italics, title, illustrations, pictures, graphs, captions and footnotes?
400
to prove where you located your answer
What is the purpose of writing the question number next to the place in the passage where you find answers to multiple choice questions.
400
Do NOT copy details from the passage word-for-word
BUT...
Include many specific details in your evidence
What is important to remember when writing your evidence?
400
A word that describes how a verb is being done.
What is an adverb?
400
The lesson learned by the characters or the BIG idea behind the story
What is the theme of the story?
500
Underlining the THREE MOST IMPORTANT WORDS/PHRASES in a paragraph.
What is a strategy you can use to help you understand the MAIN IDEA of each paragraph you read in an MCAS passage?
500
Underline the important words in the question
What is what you do after reading the multiple choice question.
500
EXPLAIN why the evidence you provided SUPPORTS the answer you gave in the first sentence of your response
What is the purpose of ELABORATION?
500
the letters -ly
What letters do adverbs usually end in?
500
joyful, stressed, anxious, adventurous, and generous.