TDA PSSA Review

What is the first thing you do when engaging in the TDA process?

• Read the prompt

• Identify literary elements

• Start writing your paragraph

• Revise and edit your work

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.3

What test taking strategies can help you with writing your TDA prompt?

• Be the first one to complete the test

• Circle/Underline literary elements in the prompt

• Talking to the text

• Daydream

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.3

How do you craft a conclusion?

• By presenting new evidence

• Summarizing your main points

• Restating the prompt and thesis in a new way

• no conclusions are needed

Select components of a body paragraph

• proper grammar and punctuation

• evidence

• inference

• analysis

How should your structure your whole TDA?

• evidence, inference, analysis

• fragments

• intro, body, conclusion

• nouns

BEFORE WRITING, every paragraph must begin with an....

• indent

• evidence

• inference

• analysis

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

Analysis needs to relate back to....

• any opinion I have

• Mary Anning's TDA

• the literary element in a prompt

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

A TDA should be...

• 1-2 paragraphs

• 2-3 paragraphs

• 3-4 paragraphs

• 4-5 paragraphs

What is an inference?

• An example from the text?

• Prior knowledge plus the text

• Comparing and contrasting

• text features

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

What are the key components of an introductory paragraph?