Writing Strategies
The formula (four letters) used to write a text-base response
What is C-B-E-R?
A strategy for answering multiple choice questions.
What students do when actively reading.
What is highlighting, taking notes?
The tool on MCAS testing that you can use to remove answers that are incorrect.
What is the Answer Eliminator Tool?
Two things that you can bring with you on MCAS day.
What are a snack/unwrapped candies and IR book?
The strategy used to plan a writing response before drafting.
What is box and bullets or quick plan?
The punctuation mark needed to go around the title of a short story or text evidence.
What is quotes?
To show organization in your writing, you should use these at the start of each paragraph.
What are transition words?
Notes you should write down on your SCRAP paper as soon as you receive it during MCAS.
What are CER sentence starters and Narrative planning reminders...?
One resource you can practice creating before MCAS day.
What is Scrap Paper Notes?
The final step you should take before submitting your open response or narrative writing.
What is reread and edit?
The kind of sentence that should begin each paragraph.
What is a topic sentence or mini claim?
The punctuation mark that follows a transition word or phrase.
What is a comma?
Use this tool if you don't know the answer to a question and want to come back to it later.
What is the Bookmark tool?
Make sure you do this for your computer the night before MCAS.
What is fully charge your computer?
The number of text evidence needed in each body paragraph.
What is at least one?
The question you should review before reading a passage on the MCAS
What is the Open Response/Written Response question?
What B stands for in our updated CBER Method.
What is Background?
Three transitions that you can to make your reasoning sound sophisticated.
The way you can use a prompt to help you write your main claim for an Open Response question.
What is TTQA (Turn the Question Around)?
The Griffin Reminder
What is indent and space your paragraphs?
What are: Talk to a friend, go for a walk, mindfulness or meditation, read a book, draw, remind yourself that it is not graded, take three deep breaths, etc?