Test Preparedness
A student stays up till 12 watching TV the night before the ELA State test are they prepared?
No they should've gone to sleep early the day before the exam
The step we take when we are done reading and annotating a text.
Central/Main idea
What can you do while reading the text to ensure you understand what is happening in the text.
Annotate
The R in RACE stand for
Restate the question
True/False
You should make sure to eat as much as humanly possible right before school the day of the exam.
False!
But you should have a little something to hold you over until lunch and also so you're not hungry during the exam
Convey means...
to show
Should you annotate for every paragraph?
NO! You should chunk the text and annotate for thinking job questions only.
What are the nonfiction thinking jobs?
Teach?
POV?
Author's Craft?
True/False -
True
What the author feels, thinks or believes about a topic
Point of view
An object that stands for something more than itself
Symbolism
A sentence taken directly from the text that supports my inference is?
Cited evidence
Textual evidence
What are the fiction thinking jobs?
CSCRT
What day will your ELA State exam start?
Tuesday, March 29th
A conversation between two people in literature
Dialogue
Comparison without like or as
What strategy would you use to to answer a short response question?
RACECE
True/False
False
What is the best strategy to use for multiple choice questions?
interpret, go back, claim, evaluate
Extravagant (a really big) exaggeration
Hyperbole
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone is the author's attitude, mood is the reader's attitude
What is one strategy other than highlighting that you can use to take notes while you read?
"Chunking" the text
You must have a conclusion paragraph in your essay (extended response), how should you start this paragraph?
Overall,
To sum up,
In closing,