1. Read the prompt carefully.
2. Plan your writing by organizing your ideas.
3. Support your ideas by telling more about each event, reason, or argument.
4. Use a variety of sentence structures.
5. Choose words that help others understand what you mean.
6. Review and edit your writing.

for a score of 3.5 or higher follow these helpers:

1. start with an attention grabber

ex: It was very hot. (Booooring!)

It was positively sweltering. (That's more like it!)

2. use transition words

ex:Clearly, As you can see, Obviously, Indeed, Truly,

3.inroduce a new paragraph with these

ex:To begin with, In addition, Furthermore, Equally important,

4. eliminate the use of weak elements

ex:Hi, my name is,I think,My first reason is, Thank you for reading my essay

 

 

Refrence:

http://www.kimmelskorner.com/fcat_writing_advice.htm:http://old.escambia.k12.fl.us/schscnts/mpark/parentresources/urlsforparents.htmlhttp://teachers.dadeschools.net/jenriquez/psms/documents/101FCATTIPS101FCATTIPS.pdfhttp://www.docstoc.com/docs/3668312/FCAT-WRITING-TIPS