MCAS Trivia
MCAS Strategies
Writing Skills
MCAS Vocabulary
Literary Terms
100

The date of the ELA MCAS

What is March 26 and 27

100
The first thing I should do before I begin reading is:

What is read through the questions and the prompt?

100

You should use this to support your claim in a thesis. 

What are reasons?

100

What analyzing means

What is reading and interpreting text closely and carefully?

100

To give human qualities to non-human things is ________________.

What is personification?

200

How much time are you given to complete the exam?

What is as much time as you need as long as you are working (not sleeping!).

200

Once I have a focus on what I am reading for, as I begin reading I should:

What is highlight corresponding text?

200

If I'm writing in support of one side of a topic, what type of essay is it?

What is argument?

200

A sequence is _______

What is the order in which events happen

200

A struggle between opposing forces

What is a conflict? 

300

True or False- you will need to take MCAS again in 11th grade.

What is only if you don't pass in 10th?

300

What should I do before I read the passage? 

What is skim the questions to pick out what I should be looking for. 

300

I should make one of these to organize my thoughts before I begin writing.

What is a graphic organizer or outline

300

Describe means to _____

What is to give details?

300

Alliteration 

What is the repetition of consonant sounds

400

The month of the Math MCAS

What is May 

400

As I'm reading and highlighting, there is a tool that I can use to annotate the text. This is called:             

What is notepad?

400

The conclusion should always restate this

What is a claim or thesis?

400

To support your claim is to. ____

What is to back it up; to find reasons and evidence

400

Allusion

What is a reference to another work?

500
MCAS stands for:

What is Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System?

500

If I truly don't know an answer, I should:

What is take an educated guess by eliminating the answers that are incorrect?
500

What person is narrative writing told in?

What is first person?

500

Inferring information from the text is ___

What is figuring something out even though it isn't specifically mentioned; to read between the lines

500

Examples of this include: "hissed," "crackle," and "splash."

What is onomatopoeia?