The Basics
The 2025 ELA state test will last this many days.
What is 2 days?
The lesson or moral of the story.
What is a theme?
An article would be considered this genre.
What is non-fiction?
This is the short answer model that will help you earn the full 2 points.
What is A-D-D (Answer-Detail-Detail)?
This is what you don't have to do on the short answer responses.
What is elaborate (or explain)?
These are the dates the ELA test will take place...
What are Wednesday, 4/23 and Thursday, 4/24
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
A story would be considered this genre.
What is fiction?
This is the multiple choice strategy you should almost ALWAYS use!
What is back to the text?
This is the multiple choice strategy you should use if there are obvious wrong answers listed.
What is process of elimination?
This is the day that you will have to write the extended response.
What is day 2 (Thursday)?
An author or character's perspective on an issue.
What is point of view?
An excerpt means this.
What is a part of a larger passage?
This multiple choice strategy will help you avoid second guessing an answer you think you know...
What is cover-predict-check?
This is where you can find a lot of helpful clues before reading a passage.
What is the directions?
This is the total number of multiple choice questions (both days combined).
What is MAP (main idea, author's purpose, point of view)?
This term is the explanation for what the whole article is about.
What is central idea?
Name one of the ways you can take a "break" while reading the test.
What is look at an object across the room and let your eyes unfocus OR close your eyes, take a deep breath, and do a count up /countdown to 10.
This is the easiest way to quickly "outline" your extended response.
What is use the bullet points in the prompt itself and code each for what part of the essay it should be (and add on intro/conclusion).
This is the amount of short answer questions per day (looking for two different numbers!)
What is 2 on day 1 and 3 on day 2?
What is internal and external conflict?
These are considered the three types of author's purpose.
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
What is compare and contrast two of the passages from the test?
This is the amount of paragraphs you should write for your extended response.
What is 4-5 (intro, 2-3 body, conclusion)?