ECR
What strategy do you use for ECR's?
RACES I Find the prompt
Which choice BEST improves this sentence?
“It was not the best choice.”
A. She was not the best choice.
B. Choosing the fairy tale book was not the best choice .
C. it was the best choice.
B.
Fix the sentence:
“You is not going to you're friends house after scool.”
is
your
school
This is what a story is mostly about.
A paragraph and sentence for a poem is called...
Stanza and line
How many TOTAL points is your ECR worth?
5
What is the BEST way to improve this sentence? (Rewrite the sentence)
“I have a dog. I like cats better.”
I have a dog, but I like cats better.
What is wrong with this sentence?
“The girl look left and right and began to cross the street.”
"look" should be "looked"
Subject/verb agreement
What kind of passage is about real life things or events or people?
Nonfiction
Words that have the same beginning sounds like in a poem.
Peter picked a pickled pepper
Alliteration
Restate this prompt...
Explain how the author uses similes and metaphors to show how the character feels in the poem.
The author uses similes and metaphors to show how the character feels in the poem by...
What word could we replace to improve clarity? Why?
“He did not understand it.”
"it"
What is "it"?
Which sentence is correct?
A. Amanda finded a beautiful jewel.
B. Amanda found a beautiful jewels.
C. Amanda found a beautiful jewel.
C
What text structure lists events in order of how they happened?
Chronological order
This type of figurative language compares two things but does not use like or as.
She is the wind.
Metaphor
What word will your ECR prompt most likely start with?
Explain
What should follow your citation or text evidence?
Explanation
Which punctuation mark belongs at the end?
“Where are you going___”
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Question mark
What is it called when the question asks you about why the author wrote the selection?
Author's purpose
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to animals or objects.
Personification
How do you know that you're writing an ECR and not an SCR?
2300 characters vs 475
Prompt is about 1 part of a selection not the whole passage
Long direction/ prompt page
What punctuation marks do you use when copying text evidence from the passage?
Quotation marks
How can you combine these sentences?
We were told we could choose chocolate. We could choose strawberry.
We were told we could choose chocolate or strawberry
What is it called when you are using your knowledge, the knowledge in the selection, and your brain to figure something out or draw a conclusion?
Inference
This figurative language uses words to spell out sounds.
Onomatopoeia