Hi Elaine,
Thank you for sending us your questions. Please see responses below in
CAPS. Let us know if you have any questions.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to you!
Take care,
Kelly
Kelly Ickes
Special Education Specialist
Measured Progress
Hi All,
I see from the heavy email traffic you've been busy with questions so
here's another. I should know the answer, but at this point in the
process, I'm not sure exactly what I know any more!
Question: is a word bank a prompt? This high school teacher is working
on SAT 24309 (social studies/science?), "The student will describe ways
that humans impact Earth's resources by listing examples of what
resources humans use up for energy (e.g. oil, coal, wood, natural gas)."
The teacher wants to know whether she can provide a word bank or icon
bank of energy sources to help the student focus on the topic. RESPONSE:
A WORD BANK OR ICON BANK WOULD BE FINE AS LONG AS IT CONTAINS SOME
DISTRACTERS/FOILS.
As an aside, I also have a question on this SAT: are the verbs
"describe" and "list" synonyms? I don't happen to think so but then, I'm
not the NYSAA language maven. Any thoughts? RESPONSE: DESCRIBE AND LIST
ARE SIMILAR BUT NOT EXACTLY THE SAME. A POSSIBLE EXAMPLE OF HOW EACH MAY
LOOK IS: LIST COULD BE SOMETHING LIKE-LIST THREE THINGS YOU SEE
OUTSIDE--CAR, TREE, BIRD AND DESCRIBE COULD BE SOMETHING LIKE-DESCRIBE
THREE THINGS YOU SEE OUTSIDE--RED CAR, TALL TREE, BLUE BIRD.
Best regards,
Elaine
