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Expository Essay
Editing
Revision
General STAAR
100
This is the first sentence of your essay
What is a hook?
100
Correct: Its not a matter of life or death.
It's
100
This is the definition of an appositive phrase.
What is a sentence that stops in the middle to identify or modify a noun.
100
An essay would receive this score if it answered the prompt and stayed on topic, but had a few errors and didn't really elaborate.
What is a 2?
200
This sentence answers the prompt and is your controlling idea.
What is a thesis.
200
Correct: You say that, but their isn't enough time.
there
200
An example of an appositive phrase.
See teacher
200
Name the pre-writing method you will use on the STAAR.
Any method from a writing teacher will do.
300
Each body paragraph should begin with this kind of sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
300
The astronaut replied, "What do I have to do to get off this planet?
Quotation mark " at the end.
300
This punctuation can combine two sentences without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
300
Doing this before turning in your test could increase your STAAR score by 20%.
What is going back and reading your essay for mistakes.
400
These are 3 examples of transition words.
What is however, therefore, on the other hand, etc.
400
My oldest friend, whom I met at school isn't speaking to me anymore.
comma , after school
400
If you combine two clauses together with a comma, what else do you need?
What is a conjunction?
400
This is essential to do during the editing and revision questions. Especially the revision.
What is actually reading the passage?
500
These are two reasons why students fail to get even a 2 on their essay.
What is failing to answer the prompt or having too many errors.
500
First of all I'm tired of your attitude.
Comma , after all
500
Add a word to the beginning of this sentence to make it complex: I wanted some caramel Cadbury eggs, I went to the store.
What is any subordinate conjunction.
500
This is an instance when you need an apostrophe.
What are contractions or possessive nouns?