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When does the NYS ELA Exam take place?
When is March 28th - 30th, 2017?
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What text genres can be found on the NYS ELA State Exam?
What are fiction texts, informational texts, poems, and plays?
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What is the test strategy that allows students to discard incorrect answers before answering a multiple choice question?
What is the process of elimination?
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What is the strategy that guarantees students at least two points on the short response questions?
What is the R-A-C-E Strategy? R - Restate the Question A - Answer the Question C - Cite 2 Pieces of Evidence from the Text! E - Explain What the Evidence Shows (1 Sentence)
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What types of writing will you be asked to complete for the extended response?
What is 1) Literary essay 2) Compare and Contrast 3) Argument
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On what day do students read 5 passages and answer multiple choice questions?
What is Day 1?
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What is the number of informational passages expected on the test?
What is 6-9 passages?
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When is the best time to review multiple choice questions?
When is before the passages are read?
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In what ways will students only earn 1pt on short response questions?
What is 1) Students (R) restate and (C) cite 2 pieces of evidence, but do not give their inference or claim to (A) answer the question. 2) Students (A) answer the question, but do not (C) cite 2 pieces of evidence. 3) Students (A) answer the question, but (C) cite only 1 piece of evidence
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How type of passages will inform the writing you will do on your extended response?
What is paired passages?
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On what days do students read 3 passages, complete short response and an extended response?
What are Days 2 and 3?
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What is the number of fictional passages on the test?
What is 2-7 passages on the test?
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What type of answer looks like the right answer and is usually one of the two possible answers remaining after process of elimination?
What is a distractor?
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What are ways students earn 0-pts on a short response question?
What is 1) beginning an answer, but erasing it completely. Once you write, you are graded. 2) copying random portions of the text that are not true evidence to answer the question. 3) Providing an illogical (A) answer, one that is not based on information from the text. 4) Only (R) restating the question. 5) summarizing when you are not asked to just to fill the space. You don't know it? Skip and come back.
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What can test takers do to ensure that we understand and are clear about what the question is asking?
What is unpacking the questions?
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On this day scholars answer 7 multiple choice questions.
What is Day 2?
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What are the three learning areas the test will assess?
What is: 1) Key ideas and details 2) Craft and structure 3) Analysis across multiple texts (Integration of Knowledge and Ideas)
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These are the types of skills multiple choice questions will assess.
What are basic reading comprehension and strategy skills? 1) key ideas and details 2) characterization 3) making inferences/ drawing conclusions 4) citing text evidence 5) summarization 6) using context clues
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What will make a test grader automatically judge and think that your answer will earn 2-pts?
What is writing legibly and watching spelling and punctuation?
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How can we unpack questions to better understand the type of writing, content, and required direction for our extended responses?
What is 1) circling the verbs and underlining the nouns (Nouns name the content; Verbs name the action you will take). 2) using key words to know the type of writing you will do.
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What is the time frame students have to complete the test?
What is unlimited time. Students do not have a time limit to prohibit them from doing their best?
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What is the most important thing a student should keep in mind about the test?
What is you do know everything, just know the test and try your best?
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How can students be most successful on ELA State Exam multiple choice questions?
What is 1) Read questions before reading the passage 2) Understand what the question is asking you 3) Annotate and question the text as you read 4) Predict answers to questions, based on your reading, before reviewing the choices (cover the answers, predict yours, see which one matches best)
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What are some skills that will be assessed through short response questions?
What is 1) inference questions 2) theme questions 3) making claims 4) evaluating or sharing a perspective
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How many points can you earn on an extended response?
What is 4pts?