Gace Ela

Ms. Chau wants her students to transfer their knowledge of plot structure to the writing of their own stories. Which of the following prewriting activities should she use to accomplish her goal?

• • Having the students create a graphic that compares the plot structure of a published story to that of their own stories

• • Having the students fill out character surveys that outline how the characters’

• • Having the students brainstorm how their favorite authors use plot structures differently to create new works of fiction

• • Having the students complete story maps for their narratives that include plot structure elements

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Imagine that you have found a magical coin. This coin can buy you anything in the universe. Decide what you would buy with the coin, and describe how that purchase would change your life or the lives of others. Be sure to include details that make the story interesting for your reader. (Maybe you buy the White House and take over as president of the United States? Or, perhaps, you buy the Moon and create a community in space where humans can live?) The prompt asks students to write in which of the following modes?

• Expository

Which of the following describes an active reading strategy for an informational text?

• Asking oneself prereading questions to activate prior knowledge and determine the

  purpose of the text

• Highlighting or underlining all topic sentences to help when reviewing the text

• Participating in a small-group read-aloud of the text to both hear and see the text

• Distinguishing elements of informational text that make it unique to better understand

  the genre

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

He had intended to work for three hours each day, but then he realizes that he wasn’t getting the project done on schedule.

Question: The sentence above could best be revised by

• making the verb tenses consistent

• • deleting inappropriately elevated language

• • making all pronoun references clear

• • eliminating split infinitives

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CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

“I admire the way you have worked so hard throughout your life.” Based on this sentence, what does the word admire mean?

• Dislike

• Appreciate

• Hurtful

• Underdstand

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

the process by which a word from one part of speech is changed to another, can also be achieved by adding to words. For example, “fuse” becomes “refuse” and “govern” becomes “governor.”

• Functional shift … affixes

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

In his much-praised book Albion’s Seed , David Hackett Fischer argues that regional accents were in place in America by the time of the Revolution. He points out that American colonists came in four distinct waves from four different parts of Britain. By assembling in America in enclaves that reflected their geographic origins, the four main waves of immigrants managed to preserve distinctive regional identities. That is why, for instance, horses in New England “neigh,” while those in the middle states of America “whinny.” The passage provides a discussion of which of the following?

• • Euphemism

• • Slang

• • Dialect

• • Etymology

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

Mr. Avedesian asked his sixth-grade English Language Arts class to write a paragraph describing a family vacation. One of his students, an English-language learner, wrote the following paragraph. We went to the Virginia beach. My sister and brother and me lik to swim and play gaims in the sand and the water. All of us had fun. Then the hot dog man cam. We were hungry and the hot dogs were good. Then we played until dark. The vacation was fun. Based on the paragraph, which of the following instructional approaches will best help to improve the student’s written vocabulary?

• Reviewing vowel-consonant-e word families

• Introducing the Frayer Model

• Showing the difference between onsets and rimes

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Which of the following approaches would be the most effective way to expand students’ long-term vocabulary?

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A language arts teacher would like students to create podcasts for a book-talk assignment. Once the students have written and edited their scripts, which of the following steps is most important for them to complete before recording the final drafts of their podcasts?

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7