Revising
List five of the seven FANBOYS.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, & so.
This acronym describes the steps needed to respond to a SCR prompt.
What is RACE?
You should always do this the night before testing and this the morning of testing.
What is rest or go to bed early and eat a good breakfast?
This strategy should be enacted BEFORE reading the text.
What is review the questions?
List two ways to join two independent clauses.
What are semi-colon, fanbos, comma, swabi. or thamos?
THESE adverbial conjunctions can be located either at the beginning, middle, or ending of a sentence.
What are THAMOS?
There are three major parts of an ECR. Name them.
What is the Thesis, Body Paragraph, and the Conclusion?
This highly effective testing strategy narrows the choice field down to only two answers.
What is 50/50?
List your "Go-To" annotation strategy.
What is summarizing the text, identifying the main idea, identifying the theme, or identifying the author's purpose or tone?
This type of noun must always be capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
These homophones decribe a location, a group's possession, and the contraction meaning they are.
What are there, their, and they're?
These two elements combined are what is commonly known as the CounterArgument.
What are the Concession and the Rebuttal?
This strategy ensures that you intentionally complete each specific part of the test on purpose and in a specific order. Everyone should have one for the test and, generally speaking, in life as well.
What is a plan?
When you see a paired text, you can expect to discover similariites and differences between the texts, similarities and differences are also know as this.
What is compare and contrast? or Comparing and Contrasting?
An appositive phrase does this to the noun that precedes it.
What is rename?
SWABIs function to join this into one sentence.
What are "two ideas" or "two thoughts?"
This is the approximate word maximum for a STAAR ECR.
What are 450 words?
When selecting the correct answer, you'll want to avoid these at all cost. They're "too distracting?"
What are distractors?
Sometimes different but often very much the same, this is the reason the authors put pen to paper.
What is the author's purpose?
FANBOYS are also known as this type of conjunction.
What is coordinating?
Name the THAMOS in the sentence: James needs to finish frosting the cake;otherwise he'll miss the party.
What is otherwise?
There are four types of writing that can possibly show up on the ECR. Name two of them.
What are expository, correspondence, argumentative, and persuasive?
This highly effective test-taking strategy for reading passages rhymes with the word late?
What is annotate?
In paired text, the reader is often asked to determine how both authors feel about the subject they are writing about, This feeling is known as what?
What is tone?
This punctuation mark is used to introduce a list, explanation, or example and must follow a complete sentence.
What is a colon?