Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test gives you classroom-proven ways to improve standardized test scores and help students become better overall writers. Fifty-three reproducible student-written examples cover descriptive, expository, narrative, and persuasive topics for elementary, middle, and high-school students. Includes grading rubrics so you can show students how to score their own writing.

Introduction

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STEP ONE---Teach Students to Write Strong-verb Practice Paragraphs

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Introduction to the Strong Verbs

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Introducing Students to the Use of Strong Verbs

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Strong-verb Sentence Practice Sheet (for Primary Grades and for introduction purposes at any level)

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Strong-verb Sentence Practice Sheet (for Elementary Schools)

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Strong-verb Sentence Practice Sheet (for Middle Schools)

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Strong-verb Sentence Practice Sheet (for High Schools)

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Introducing the Paragraphs and Some Topic Sentences to Use

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Examples of Basic, Elementary Strong-verb Paragraphs

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More Complex Examples of Strong-verb Paragraphs

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Clustering for the Paragaphs

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Writing the Paragraphs

14

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Similes, Vocabulary, Sentence Structure

14

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Grading the Strong-verb Paragraphs

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FYI---How Your Teacher Scores the SVP

18

An Eye-opening Activity and a Conclusion to the Strong Verbs

15

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STEP TWO---Teach Students How to Score the State Writing Assessment Tests

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Teaching Yourself How to Score the Essays Holistically

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Obtaining Your Examples and Teaching the Basic Criteria of Scoring

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The Grading Rubric and Lesson Plans to Teach it to Your Students

21

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The Basic Criteria for Scoring the State Writing Assessment Test

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Lesson Plans for Practicing Scoring

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Six-Point Modified Holistic Rubric

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Helpful Things to Point Out as Your Students Practice Scoring

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STEP THREE---Teach Students How to Plan and Write a Standard Five-paragraph Essay (and Narrative Story) and Have Students Plan, Write, Evaluate, and Score at Least Fifteen before the Day of the Test

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Introduction

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Teaching Students the Definition of What They Will Write

27

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Basic Expository/Clarification, Descriptive, or Persuasive/Point of View Essay

33

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The Five Paragraphs of a Basic Essay

34

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Basic Short Narrative

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The Beginning, Middle, and End of a Narrative

36

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Useful Devices

37

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Clustering for Ideas and Organization

38

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Essay Plan Form

42

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Restating the Topic (Finding the Key Words)

43

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Beginning with the Beginning (Opening Paragraphs)

44

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Learning to Produce Nitty-gritty Detail in the Middle

45

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Evaluating Writing

47

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Ending with a Bang

48

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Procedure for Practicing the Actual Writing

48

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Grading the Essays/Narratives

49

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210 Practice Prompts

51

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Descriptive Prompts for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools

52

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Expository/Clarification Prompts for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools

56

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Narrative Prompts for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools

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(4)

Persuasive Prompts for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools

67

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STEP FOUR---Teach Students to Be Able to Write from a Point of View Other Than Their Own (Expository/Clarification and Persuasive/Point of View) and Encourage Enthusiasm and Passion (Narrative, Descriptive, Expository/Clarification, and Persuasive)

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Teach Your Students the Following by Any Means Possible

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Persuasive and Expository/Clarification Topics

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Encourage Passion in Narrative, Descriptive, Expository/Clarification, and Persuasive Topics

77

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Fun Ways to Learn and Retain Great Vocabulary

77

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Writer's ``Pizzazz''

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Writers' ``PIZZAZZ'' Used to Dazzle the Reader

79

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Fifty-three Examples for Scoring Practice

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Descriptive Examples

87

(14)

Scores and Analyses for Sample Set #1

99

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Expository/Clarification Examples

101

(10)

Scores and Analyses for Sample Set #2

109

(2)

More Expository/Clarification Examples

111

(10)

Scores and Analyses for Sample Set #3

119

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Narrative Examples

121

(18)

Scores and Analyses for Sample Set #1

136

(3)

Persuasive/Point of View Examples

139

(18)

Scores and Analyses for Sample Set #4

154

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Bibliography

157

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