ELA Strategies
Use this strategy to evaluate answers on multiple choice questions.
What is slash or trash?
Use this strategy to organize your scratch paper into sections so your work stays neat.
What is a Four Square?
In litertature, this term refers to the emotional atmosphere of feeling a work evokes in the reader.
What is mood?
This term describes the distance a number is from zero on the number line and it is always represented as non negative value.
What is absolute value?
Level 0 = Silent
What is the voice level during testing?
Use this strategy when determining the meaning of unknown words.
What are context clues?
Doing this first allows you to identify the skills you are most confident in and manage your time effectively.
What is skimming or Pre- reading questions?
A direct comparison that compares resemblance between two things.
What is a metaphor?
In the equation y=kx, this term refers to the k value.
What is unit rate?
Plenty of rest, a healthy breakfast, on time arrive and a positive mindset.
What are things you can do to be ready for Testing Day?
Skills such as highlighting, circling, and underlining.
What is annotating?
When dealing with unknown formulas, you should refer to this document.
What is the reference sheet?
The figurative language is being used in this phrase. "The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky."
What is personification?
This term is used to describe a value that is much higher or much lower than the rest of the data points in a set.
What is an outlier?
This text gives true information about real people, places, events, or topics. It includes facts, details, headings, captions, and text features.
What is non-fiction?
Questions usually ask you to provide this in order to prove your answer.
What is text evidence?
Final strategy involves looking back at your work using a different method to ensure your answer is correct.
What is reviewing your work?
The term for a figure of speech that makes a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This geometric property describes figures that have the same shape with proportional side lengths, but are not necessarily the same size.
What is similarity?
DC CAPE is taken on this testing platform.
What is TEST NAV?
When writing a constructed response you should use this to ensure you address every part of the prompt.
What is RACES or ToSeeC Model?
Read, annotate, define, frame your equations, solve, and answer statement.
What are the steps to solving word problems?
This term is used to describe the study of words parts.
Morphology
This is a mathematical statement where two expressions are equal often requiring multiple steps to find the value of the unknown variable.
What is an equation?
90 minutes for ELA, 60 minutes for 7/8 Math, 90 minutes for Algebra.