This is how should you begin every short response question.
What is rephrasing the question?
100
When running short on time, this can work in place of your intro. (Pssst, it's also the guiding sentence in your essay that helps you organize the whole thing!)
What is the CLAIM?
100
There are this many correct responses to each multiple choice question.
What is only one?
100
This is a synonym for central idea.
What is main idea, gist, thesis, message?
100
This activity should be done when a student has finished answering all the questions on the ELA.
What is checking over his/her work?
200
A short response should be roughly this many sentences.
What is 3 to 5 sentences?
200
This is the highest score possible on the extended response.
What is 4?
200
Students should look here when they're really not sure what the correct answer is.
What is back at the text?
200
This is the part of the passage that to which the central idea applies.
What is the whole passage?
200
If a written response question asks for evidence from two texts and a student uses only one, this is they highest score they can receive.
What is 2?
300
This is the highest score possible on a short response.
What is two?
300
When using the quote sandwich method, this must the bottom 'bread'. This is the meat.
What is analysis/explanation? What is the quote itself?
300
All selected response questions are testing this.
What is reading comprehension?
300
Sometimes this text feature helps students decipher the central idea of a passage or paragraph.
What is the title or subtitles?
300
Close reading is about how we do these three things with our texts.
What is approach, questioning and analyzing?
400
This is required to have a "perfect" short response.
What is textual evidence AND an inference?
400
Once a position has been taken and defended, this can be used to show the reader you have an understanding of an alternate point of view.
What is counterclaim?
400
This is the strategy whereby a student chooses the response he/she thinks is correct, based on all the possible responses that seem incorrect.
What is process of elimination?
400
If the passage is a fable or a folk tale, the central idea is called this.
What is a moral or a lesson?
400
This is a strategy you should be using as you closely read any text (hint it has the word 'note' in it).
What is annotate?
500
This is what you should do before you even write a single word in response to your SR prompt or even essay prompt.
What is make sure you understand exactly what is being asked!!!!
500
This strategy might help you to read the passage(s) through the lens required to write your essay.
What is read the question first?
500
This is the amount of questions you should leave blank.
What is NONE? Bubble one answer for every question!
500
An author's purpose for writing a text might be one of these.
What is persuade, inform, entertain?
500
This is an educated guess that you must make when things are not directly stated.