ELA Short Response

main events of a story: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

• plot

• central idea

• theme

• summary

When you are planning your short constructed response you must

• Draft your ideas and review your annotations

• Write your response using a plan

• Organize your ideas and textual evidence

• Answers A and C

Before you turn in your short constructed response you need to

• Review your textual evidence and ideas

• Check your grammar and spelling

• Check to see if your details support your response

• All of the above

When reading a Prompt you must

• Write your response

• Paraphrase the prompt and make a list of things to write about

• Draw a picture

• Identify the textual evidence

When you write your short constructed response you must

• Only write a claim sentence

• Find key vocabulary

• Underline the textual evidence

• Write your response using a plan

Reread the prompt for a short constructed response to make sure you haven't missed anything in the question

• False

• True

What does paraphrase mean?

• to infer

• to annotate a text

• to restate and entire passage in your own words

• an organized written statement

What is a short constructed response?

• A short paragraph with transitions

• A 5 paragraph essay

• A novel

• a brief, organized written composition that answers a prompt

What is a prompt?

• is a statement about a particular topic, idea, or issue, followed by questions

• A simple question

• A statement and a question

• A fill in the blank answer

For the short response in part 3 of the ELA regents, what do you do right after writing down a quote? 

• Paraphrase it. 

• Explain the central idea.

• Explain how the literary element is shown.

• Cite using line #s.