EXPLORE/PLAN/ACT English
To enhance their skills in each English-related strand, students who score in the 16–19 score range may benefit from activities that encourage them to do the following:
| Score Range 16–19 |
| Topic Development in Terms of Purpose and Focus |
- continue reading writers of
various genres and imitating their work
- write longer and more
complicated essays, stories, reviews, etc.
- state the main theme of or
summarize essays they have written
- revise essays by eliminating sentences or ideas that violate the essay’s focus
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| Organization, Unity, and Coherence |
- recognize and experiment
with more sophisticated
organizational structures
(e.g., comparison-contrast, cause-effect)
- revise writing to delete illogical conjunctive adverbs
- discuss the most logical place to add specific information in a draft essay
- discuss the purpose and the importance of the opening paragraph for directing the rest of the piece
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| Word Choice in Terms of Style, Tone, Clarity, and Economy |
- revise writing to make it more concise and precise
- discuss and model tone and style
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| Sentence Structure and Formation |
- experiment with writing more
sophisticated sentences; check to ensure verbs agree with subjects and modifiers don’t dangle
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| Conventions of Usage |
- revise sentences to ensure that each verb agrees with its subject when there is some text between the two
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| Conventions of Punctuation |
- use commas to set off parenthetical phrases
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