Focus & Organization
A task or question that requires a written response that includes reasons and evidence
What is a prompt?
Earning a score of three or four
What is the goal for the TCAP writing assessment?
These words help with sequence, order, and make your essay easier to follow for the reader
What are transitions?
The first word of a sentence, proper nouns and adjectives, and titles
What is capitalization?
They are opinion, explanatory/informational, and narrative
What are the three of modes of writing?
Tells the reader your opinion, characters and setting, or topic discussed in your essay
What is the introduction?
These are ways to justify your thinking or help you to explain your topic
What are reasons?
These are sophisticated words, domain-specific, grade-level appropriate words
What is word choice?
Using letter sounds, syllabication rules, and sight words when writing
What is spelling?
This is a used to score writings based on four categories: focus & organization, development, language, and conventions
What is a rubric?
Restates your opinion, retells your reasons, or wraps-up your essay
What is a conclusion?
These are direct quotes, lines, paraphrasing to support your reasons, ideas, opinions, or connections made in your essay
What is evidence?
Examples of this are similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, alliteration, personification, and idioms
What is figurative language?
Examples of this can be found at the end of a sentence, after an abbreviation, to join two sentences together, and around direct quotations or dialogue
What is punctuation?
Telling your opinion with reasons or evidence to support your thinking
What is opinion writing?
Names of sources, stimuli, text, or articles read and used for evidence to support your writing
What are the titles of passages?
This is when you tell more about your evidence or thinking, opinions, or reasons given
What is connections and elaboration?
Try to avoid doing this by using synonyms
What is repeated words?
Symbols used to show when a character is speaking or when a line is a direct quote
What are quotation marks?
This writing mode includes plot features such rising action, climax, and falling action
What is narrative writing?
This helps with organization and makes your essay easier to read
What is paragraph form?
Using evidence, explaining what the text says explicitly, drawing evidence, and retelling are examples of this
What is quoting accurately from the text?
Phrases such as, "according to the text", "the text says", or "in the text" used to quote accurately from the text
What are text evidence sentence starters?
These must be spelled out anytime they are used in your writing
What are the numbers 0-9?
Writing that explains, describes, or retells more about a topic
What is explanatory/informational writing?