Strategies
What is one strategy to use when answering multiple choice questions?
Cross out wrong answers
Go back and read the text
What does the R in Races stand for
Restate
How many details do you need in the short answer response?
Two
What writing strategy do you use to write the extended response?
RACECES
Does spelling and grammar count?
No
What should you do when you are reading or listening to the text?
Underline
Highlight the text
What does the A stand for in the RACES strategy
Answer
What writing strategy do you use for the short answer response question?
RACCE
How many paragraphs do you need to write for the extended response?
4
What do the little numbers next to the words mean?
What does Annotate mean?
Underline, highlight, write notes
What does the C stand for in the RACES strategy
Cite
What do you need before and after you quote evidence?
Quotation marks or page/paragraph number
In conclusion
Can you ask to have a paragraph re-read to you?
Yes
What should you do after reading each paragraph
Make a small note about what the paragraph is about.
What does the E stand for in the RACES strategy
Explain the quote
If the question tells you to go back to a paragraph, what should you do?
How many sentences should be in the introduction and conclusion?
What are some things you can do after you are done with the test?
Read a book
Work on homework that is one paper
Draw
Put your head down
It a question asks you to go back to a paragraph what should you?
Go back to the paragraph and re-read it
What does the S stand for in the RACES strategy
Summarize
How many sentences should the short answer response be?
4
How many pieces of evidence do you need for each body paragraph?
If a word has a number next to it, it means that there is a definition for that word. Where can you find the definitions?
At the end of the passage.