For “rewriting” their answer, we like to use different things. For instance, you could play with rephrasing the answer as short choppy sentences, then letting groups play with ways to combing the sentences in different ways.
Or you could use the “intensity scale” to practice finding stronger words or phrases to replace the ones in their introductions.
Or add a truism to the ending.
We’ll really know better when we see a whole lot of high-scoring essays, to get a look at what TEA considered the best. I hear that this year’s essays won’t be returned until September, but then we’ll scrutinize the daylights out of them, and we’ll ferret out a whole lot of the unwritten rules that TEA is using to score the essays.