Writing Strategies
The formula (three letters) used to write a text-base response
What is C-E-R?
A strategy for answering multiple choice questions.
What students do when actively reading.
What is highlighting, taking notes?
The resource students can use in the classroom the day of the MCAS.
Blank paper to do notes for essay.
Two things that you can bring with you on MCAS day.
What are a charged iPad and IR book?
The strategy used to plan a writing response before drafting.
What is two column notes or top down web?
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...?
What should you review on Mrs. Hewitt’s site that you should review before MCAS.
What is MCAS Study Packet-Tips and Tricks?
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 claim?
The punctuation mark that follows a transition word or phrase.
What is a comma?
The notepad and highlighter tools.
What are two tools that can help you take notes while reading MCAS passages?
What you should do the night before MCAS.
What is charge iPad?
The number of text evidence needed in each body paragraph.
What is at least two?
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.
What is this evidence highlights, it is important to notice, this example demonstrates...
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)?
One figurative language example you can remember.
What are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification?