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Narratives
Persuasives
Open Responses
Test Strategies
Grab Bag
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Vivid details that help bring a narrative to life for a reader.
What are sensory details? sight, smell, taste, touch, sound
100
The type of outline needed for persuasive essays; contains roman numerals, letters, and numbers.
What is an alphanumeric outline?
100
What the open responses are meant to assess.
What is reading comprehension?
100
A strategy for breaking up poetry into more manageable chunks.
What is placing a slash at each stop sign?
100
A helpful acronym for standard English conventions.
What is Mechanics, Usage, Grammar, and Structure?
200
Conversation, indication by quotation marks, between two or more people.
What is dialogue.
200
The 3 characteristics of a strong thesis.
What are debatable, contains the "three reasons why," and located at the end of the first paragraph
200
The three attributes of an open response.
What are clear, accurate, and complete?
200
The writing process for the long composition.
What is vomit, outline, draft, revise, and edit?
200
FOUR ways to go big with MUGS.
What are using semicolons, dashes, parentheses, apostrophes, parallelism, compound sentences (FANBOY), colons, spelling out contractions, etc...
300
Central idea of the narrative often located in the end of the essay.
What is the moral or lesson learned?
300
10 transition words that should be used as the glue to hold your essay together.
What are furthermore, consequently, as a result, one cause, therefore, additionally, for instance, nonetheless, on the contrary, in conclusion, overall, in summary, to emphasize, likewise, and eventually.
300
The number of pieces of evidence used to defend the claim and interpretation of an open response.
What is three?
300
Two tips for if you become tired, confused, or restless.
What is referring back to reading, and taking a 1-minute break to stretch hands, arms, and neck.
300
A helpful acronym for remembering the different aspects of topic development.
What is Topic development, Organization, Details, Language, and Style?
400
The THREE different techniques used to open the narrative.
What is launching readers into a scene, providing sensory details, or openings with a person speaking?
400
A possible technique for organizing a persuasive essay; especially focusing on the arrangement of each paragraph.
What is having a clear "batting order" in which the essay's strongest argument is stated last.
400
The four parts of the topic sentence.
What are the title, author, genre, and subject (question)?
400
Six tips for answering multiple choice questions.
What are underline key words in each question, anticipate answer in head before looking at answers, elimating answers you know aren't right, go with your gut (first instinct), look to see if the question stem ends with "an," skip a question you can't answer a question within a minute or less?
400
FIVE techniques that grab a reader's attention, pull them into the essay, and set the stage.
What are using a quotation or proverb, beginning with an anecdote, beginning with a startling or interesting fact, creating an analogy to something else
500
The five techniques for all-star titles.
What are the "title : subtitle" model, use of alliteration, a key phrase from the essay, imitation of a TV show, and a phrase from a famous song.
500
A technique used to make a writer more convincing in which they consider the point of view of the reader.
What is acknowledging a counter-argument or objection?
500
TEN different evidence techniques for written responses.
What is according to the text, in the story, this is a sign of, in addition, an example from the text, the author uses the phrase, furthermore, the text indicates, what I find intriguing is, for example, in another point in the story, the reader could conclude, the author is expressing a...
500
SIX types of notes to put in the margin while actively reading; ways to annotate a text.
What are underlining key words or phrases per paragraph, circling unfamiliar words and using context to try to define them, illustrating the information (pictures, timeline, chart), using [brackets] around lengthy text to summarize, using "!" to identify information that is shocking, etc...
500
FIVE conclusion techniques to kiss the reader of your essay good-bye and leave them feeling satisfied.
What are saying cheese, connecting to the reader's life, experience, and emotions, echoing the introduction, suggesting action, and imagining the possible consequences?