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Long Composition
Reading Comprehension
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MCAS day
MCAS Eve
100
The paragraphs where you are allowed to use “I” in the five paragraph essay.
What is 2,3,4?
100
The strategy for answering multiple choice questions.
What is yes, no, maybe?
100
What students do when actively reading.
What is underlining, highlighting, circling, and starring important details?
100
The resource students can use in the classroom the day of the MCAS.
What is a dictionary?
100
Two things that you can bring with you on MCAS day.
What are highlighters, erasers, and an AR book?
200
The number of paragraphs you should write for the long composition essay.
What is five?
200
The punctuation mark needed to go around the title of a short story.
What is quotes?
200
The number of vocabulary and transition words students should use in their essays.
What is six to eight?
200
The four items you should write on your MCAS before you begin.
What are RUCO, graphic organizer letters, vocab and transition words?
200
At least two resources on Mrs. Eramo’s site that you should review before MCAS.
What vocabulary words, transitions and comma rules?
300
The number of times you should proofread your final draft.
What is five times.
300
The kind of sentence that should begin each paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
300
The punctuation mark that follows a transition word.
What is a comma?
300
The number of paragraphs you should write for the reading comprehension open response.
What is four?
300
The web site can where you can see examples of student work and scoring.
What is the DESE (Department of Elementary and Secondary Education) website?
400
You should refer to this if you cannot add enough detail for one of your three supporting paragraphs.
What is your brainstorm ideas.
400
The definition of a blurb.
What is the wording before the passage?
400
What B stands for this in the twelve steps.
What is Brainstorm?
400
The two sections on the scoring rubric are called this.
What are 1.Topic/Idea Development and 2. Standard English Conventions?
400
Two things you should do before you come to school on MCAS day.
What are eat a healthy breakfast and get enough sleep?
500
Five of the transitions that you can use on test day.
What is in addition, furthermore, however, for example, above all...?
500
The words students should circle in an open response.
What are question words?
500
The number of times students should read anything for MCAS.
What is three times?
500
MCAS stands for this.
What is Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System?
500
Two vocabulary words that you can remember for test day.
What are conviction, sheepish, intricate, keen, wit, dismal, obsurdity, egotism, simultaneously, irony, consolation, revive, immense, presumptuous, vehemently, garrulous, conjectured, infamous, interminable, distracted, chagrin, naive?