MULTIPLE CHOICE
These type of multiple choice questions require that you go back and find a specific fact that was stated in the text.
What is detail questions?
Open response questions use this amount of space.
What is all of the space they give you?
How many paragraphs are you required to write for an Long Comp
What is 4 paragraphs
When using process of elimination on multiple choice questions you should narrow down to this many answers.
What is two possible answers.
When editing your final draft of your long comp essay, what common tool can you use to check your spelling?
What is a dictionary.
These type of questions ask you to identify what a passage is mostly about.
What is main idea questions.
Open response questions are used to assess your ability to do this.
What is reading comprehension?
The parts of an essay required for a long composition essay are...
What is: introduction, body one, body two, body three, conclusion?
When looking at the context of an unknown word or phrase you should look at this amount of the text before and after the word or phrase.
What is 2 to 3 lines before and after?
Substituting colorful words for common ones -- such as "murmured" instead of "said" or "persevered" instead of "tried hard" -- will earn you a higher score on this MCAS task.
What is the long composition?
captions in the reading passage will most likely contain information that will be required to succeed in answering this type of question
What is answering the multiple choice questions?
This part of an essay is the same as a Topic Sentence
What is writing a claim?
The phrase "fully developed" in the essay directions and rubric, mostly refers to the use of these.
What are multiple examples.
It is absolutely necessary to use this strategy in order to get a high score on the long composition section of the MCAS.
What is make a plan first?
This two-part step in the writing process helps you make sure that you have stuck to one central theme in all paragraphs of your long composition.
What is making a plan and following it.
Vocabulary questions about common words that everyone knows are most likely tricking you by doing this.
What is using the word in an unusual way in the passage?
A level four response on the open response questions will use a minimum of this many direct quotes from the text and explain them this many times.
What is two direct quotes with explanations?
This sample paragraph scored a 2 for organization on the rubric for this reason. "If you are dishonest people will not like you and trust you. People will not believe you if you lie a lot."
What is repetition?
Taking brief notes and underlining in the reading passage as you read works well for these types of questions on the MCAS.
What are multiple choice and open-ended responses.
Two of the following revision strategies we used in the memoir unit can help you to add details to your writing when you are revising your rough draft on the long composition: (1) revising for description with nouns, verbs, & 5 senses (2) revising for theme with the again & again theme chart (3) peer editing
What are, revising for description with nouns, verbs, & 5 senses and revising for theme with the again & again theme chart.
You need to go back and examine the section of text the question refers to for these types of multiple-choice questions.
What is all of them! [Question types are: detail, main idea, inference, author's purpose, vocabulary, and author's craft/literary terms, text-based.]
This open-ended response question has this many parts that need to be answered. "How did Coleman translate her dream into a goal and her goal into a reality?"
What is two parts?
What is the approach seen in the below paragraph that probably led this writer to earning a six for "idea development" in this long composition essay? "All those little truths that were told, all those honest people, they are the ones who made this world the way it is. Much of our civilization is based on honesty."
What is making a connection to the world.
These two strategies can help you to figure out the correct answer on a vocabulary question even when you don't know the word.
thinking of similar-sounding words that you know, and using context clues
One of the errors below would demonstrate "Limited awareness of audience" on the MCAS long composition rubric. (1) Using texting abbreviations and style in your writing, such as acronyms like "b/c" or "ROFL" and using all lowercase letters. (2) Repeating the same idea over and over again. (3) Only giving one example in each paragraph.
What is using texting abbreviations?