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Persuasive Prompt
Argumentative Prompt
Explanatory Prompt
Reading Passages
Open-ended short answer
100
What a persuasive prompt asks you to do.
What is persuade or convince the reader of your point of view?
100
The key word to distinguish an argumentative essay.
What is "claim"?
100
What an explanatory prompt asks you to do.
What is to explain or inform?
100
The 3 parts of the reading section of the NJ ASK.
What is the text, the multiple choice, and the open-ended question?
100
The number of possible points you can earn on an open-ended question.
What is 4 points?
200
The key word to distinguish a persuasive prompt.
What is opinion?
200
You have this much time to complete an argumentative prompt on the NJ ASK.
What is 45 minutes?
200
How much time for an explanatory prompt on the NJ ASK.
What is 30 minutes?
200
How much time you get for each reading passage.
What is 30 minutes?
200
When you connect what you read to something else you have read.
What is a text-to-text connection?
300
These are transition words that set up the three body paragraphs. Name at least three.
What is "first, second, third," or "first, next, finally"?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!! WORTH 600 points! All the parts of an essay you must include.
What is Claim, Reasons, Counter-Argument, and Conclusion?
300
The key word to distinguish an explanatory prompt.
What is explain or explanation?
300
What the numbers in the margins tell you.
Which paragraph number is it?
300
What you must include in the first sentence.
What is to re-state the question?
400
These phrases begin persuasive sentences.
What are "I believe," "In my opinion," or "I think"?
400
These are argumentative phrases to set up a counter-argument.
What are "Opponents may claim", "critics would argue", or "On the other hand."
400
The two most common types of explanatory prompts.
What is a quote or a familiar topic?
400
The reading passage could be one of these three types.
What is fictional, informational, or persuasive?
400
Two ways to extend an answer.
What is text-to-text connection and text-to-self connection?
500
The Greek word for the response persuasion elicits in the reader.
What is Pathos or emotional response?
500
The Greek word for the response argument elicits in the reader.
What is Logos or logical response?
500
What you do if the prompt asks you to respond to a situation that has never happened to you.
What is be creative or make it up?
500
One technique to know how to answer the multiple choice questions.
What is read them first, or skim through the passage first and then quickly read over the questions, or process of elimination?
500
RACE means to do this when answering.
What is Re-state question, Answer, Cite evidence, Extend?