Writing Strategies
What does P stand for in POWER?
Pre-read, Pull Apart Prompt, Pick Ideas
A strategy for answering multiple choice questions.
What is eliminate incorrect answers?
What do you do after you have looked over the title, text features, and where the text came from?
Read the questions!
What does metaphor mean?
Comparing two things without using as or like.
What are antonyms?
Words that mean something different.
What does O stand for in POWER?
Organize your writing.
The punctuation mark needed to go around dialogue.
What quotation marks?
What do you do while you are reading the questions before you read the texts?
Highlight information you should pay attention to when reading the texts.
If you are told to write a paragraph, what would you use for POWER and TIDE?
Big T, ID, ID, ID, E
What are homophones?
Words that sound the same but do not have the same meaning.
Stop and Jot about the prompt.
When proofreading your written response, what are three things you need to pay close attention to?
Capital Letters, punctuation, make sure your sentences make sense.
What can quotation marks mean if they are not showing dialogue?
Title of a text, using it in a non-literal way "born", "won".
What are two tools you can use on the MCAS test?
Highlighter, eliminator, Hide Possible Answers
What does I mean in TIDE?
When you need to write an essay, what are three things you must include in your writing?
What is the first thing you do when you have the MCAS text in front of you?
Look at the title, text features, where the text came from.
What does the E stand for in POWER?
To give an inanimate object human characteristics.
What does the prefix dis mean?
Dis means the opposite of or not.
What are the words called that you use when starting a new paragraph when you have multiple paragraphs to write?
Transition Words
Pull Apart Prompt - Do/What
What does the D stand for in TIDE?
Detailed information - your thoughts about the topic
What are synonyms?
Words that mean the same.
What do you use to write a story?
CSPACE and beginning, middle, and end.