Post date: Apr 3, 2013 4:40:01 PM
Are you nervous for upcoming CRCTs? Do you feel you have no clue what to review?
All of the attachments are designed to assist you in being ready on the magic day of the ELA test.
Start with the CRCT Review attachment and then figure out where you are weakest and look at those notes.
In class I used the metaphor of jelly beans. Below is a break down of the areas ELA will cover and some helpful hints to assist in review. Note: I am saying review as we have already learned the majority of this material in class together. Most important is that each student THINK about what material each question is asking for and try your best to remember your review. If you do not know, make your best guess and try to eliminate two answers out so you have a 50/50 chance of guessing the correct choice.
Break Down:
Parts of Speech (red jelly beans)
Have a basic foundation of each part of speech and type
Parts of the Sentence (green jelly beans)
Know how to find subjects and predicates at the very least and don't be afraid to find all the parts of the sentence in any given question before you answer the question. The pattern of Subject + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object holds true in 95% of English sentences. Don't forget to to keep an eye out for the ever crafty prepositional phrases
Writing Conventions (yellow jelly beans)
These have to do with the writing process of brainstorming, rough drafts, editing, and final draft as well as paragrah construction. You may be asked to find the sentence that does not belong or edit sentences to better follow the topic sentence. You may be asked how to find or locate relevant information depending on what type of writing you are focused on. Here make sure you review Expository, Narraitive, and Persuasive writing as well as sentence types and sentence purpose. There are some questions on spelling and capitalization so you may want to review our spelling rules of this past year. Be aquainted with types of punctuation as well such as period, comma, quotation marks, semi colon, and apostrophe.
Literary Devices (pink jelly beans)
Know narrative, expository, persuasive, and poetry terms. For poetry, all you need to survive is stanza, metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, assonance, rhyme scheme, rhyming couplet, and meter.
Each test will have a mix of all the types of jelly beans and try to be aware of what the question is looking for as far as information you have reviewed. If you can eliminate at least two of the four choices you increase your chances of success and if you become upset or frustrated take a minute and slowly count to 25 and then get back to it. Try not to make or leave stray marks or eraser smudges as that can mess up the scan tron grader and mark correct information as incorrect.
GOOD LUCK or BON CHANCE