PARCC Facts
PARCC stands for
What is Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers?
The context clue uses a similar word to help explain the meaning of the vocabulary word.
What is a synonym?
If you have your phone out during PARCC, this will happen
What is your test will be collected, your score will not be counted, and you will be asked to leave?
A simile is a comparison using
What is like or as?
The author states a problem and lists one or more possible solutions
What is text Problem and Solution?
The two sections that are on the English PARCC
What are Reading and Writing?
This context clue uses a word with an opposite definition to give the meaning of the vocabulary word.
What is an antonym?
We want to PASS PARCC so that we do not have to
What is Bridge?
Imagery is
What are words the author uses to paint picture in the reader's mind?
The author explains a topic, person, place, or thing by listing characteristics, examples, or features
What is description?
This many states participate in PARCC testing
What is 6 states?
Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, the District of Columbia, Colorado and Louisiana.
This type of context clue uses examples to help the reader infer the meaning of the vocabulary word.
What is an examples or examples?
The three ways that you are earning points on PARCC
What are your notes, doing what you are supposed to be doing, and your score on the actual test?
Theme is
What is the main idea or overall meaning of a work?
The author lists one or more causes and the resulting effects
What is Cause and Effect?
PARCC reports results according to ______ (#) performance levels that delineate the knowledge, skills, and practices students are able to demonstrate .
What is 5?
The meaning of the vocabulary word is in the sentence itself, usually following the vocabulary word.
What is definition?
Your notes are worth this many points
What is 30 points?
DAILY DOUBLE!
What are the three rhetorical appeals?
What are Ethos, Logos, Pathos?
The author explains how two or more things are alike and how they are different
What is Compare and Contrast?
Before PARCC, high school students had to pass this test in order to graduate
What is the HSA?
The context clue used in this sentence is
Chase knew the shed was precarious and likely to fall apart.
What is a synonym?
When you cross out all of the choices that you know are not correct and choose the answer that is left
What is Process of Elimination?
What is onomatopoeia?
What is a word that imitates the sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described?
The author lists the items or events in chronological order; how to make or do something
What is Sequence?