English Language study guides

A complete overview of evidence and citation on the Regents ELA exam: selecting relevant textual evidence, embedding and quoting it, citing the Part 2 sources by text number, and avoiding summary and over-copying, the skills behind the Command of Evidence criterion on both written responses.

A complete overview of exam strategy for the Regents ELA exam: the three-part format and scoring, timing and pacing the three hours, reading command words and task directions, and understanding the two holistic scoring rubrics, the meta-skills that turn reading and writing ability into marks.

A complete overview of the literary and rhetorical devices toolkit for the Regents ELA exam: figurative language and imagery, tone, mood and diction, narrative and structural techniques, rhetorical appeals and persuasion, and characterization and point of view, the transferable toolkit for Part 1 craft questions and Part 3 writing strategies.

A complete overview of the reading comprehension skills for Part 1 of the Regents ELA exam: close reading and text evidence, determining central ideas, making inferences, analyzing author's craft and purpose, reading the poem, and a reliable method for the 24 multiple-choice questions.

A complete overview of Part 2 of the Regents ELA exam, the source-based argument: understanding the task, establishing a precise claim, addressing counterclaims, integrating evidence from at least three of the four texts, organizing the essay, and scoring on the 6-point holistic rubric.

A complete overview of Part 3 of the Regents ELA exam, the text-analysis response: understanding the two-move task, identifying a central idea, analyzing one writing strategy that develops it, structuring the short response, and scoring on the 4-point holistic rubric.