FSA Test-Taking Tips
Writing Structure and Organization
Reading Literature
Reading Informational Text
Language
100
This is where you would go to change a font or to mark a question for review.
What are Tools?
100
This structure shows similarities and differences.
What is comparison/contrast?
100
This is how to determine the meaning of a word in a text.
What are context clues, textual evidence, and/or multiple meanings?
100
This is another way of saying main idea in a nonfiction passage.
What is central idea?
100
This is how to write a constructed or short response.
What is in complete sentences?
200
This is what you should do if you are not sure of an answer.
What is reread the passage and look for textual evidence?
200
This structure shows something which makes something happen and what happens.
What are cause and effect? Related: problem/solution
200
This is how a student would answer a question about the impact of figurative language or repetition.
What is emphasis,impact, or meaning?
200
This is how a typical essay is structured.
What are introduction, body, and conclusion?
200
Use the three homophones for " there" in three sentences. Spell each use correctly.
Sample responses: We did not want to go there for Thanksgiving. They're the nicest people we know. The students wanted to know their scores on their FSA.
300
This is what you should do when you are done with your FSA.
What is go over the answers and check them against the passages to make sure you are right?
300
This is the correct order of events.
What is chronological order?
300
This is how you would support your answer in an A,B question.
What is textual evidence?
300
This is how the author perceives and presents an idea.
What is point of view?
300
Edit the following sentences: among the trees the owl monkies snuggled and waited until night fall in the canopy
What is Among the trees, the owl monkeys snuggled and waited until night fell in the canopy (or nightfall)?
400
This is the percentage you need to achieve mastery.
What is 70%?
400
This is the purpose of a counter-claim.
What is to acknowledge other points of view?
400
This is the difference between mood and tone.
What are mood=me and tone=author in terms of feelings or attitude.
400
This is why the author wrote the text.
What is author's purpose?
400
bill gates founder of microsoft is one of the wealthy man in the world
What is Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is one of the wealthiest men in the world ?
500
This is the length of time you have to complete the test.
What is ninety minutes per day for two days?
500
This is the typical structure of a biography or autobiography.
What is chronological?
500
These are the person telling the poem and the person telling the story.
What are speaker and narrator?
500
This is another way to present information about the text, and you will be asked to analyze it as well as compare or contrast it to written text or other types.
What is media?
500
whenever, my brother has homework to complete he starts by making a sandwich, and sitting down at the computer then he plays a few games
What is Whenever my brother has homework to complete, he starts by making a sandwich, sitting down and the computer, and playing a few games . Whenever my brother has homework to complete, he starts by making a sandwich and sitting down at the computer; then he plays a few games. Whenever my brother has homework to complete, he starts by making a sandwich and sitting down at the computer, and then he plays a few games. Whenever my brother has homework to complete, he starts by making a sandwich and sitting down at the computer. He then he plays a few games. ?
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