Informational Text
A synonym for informational text.
What is nonfiction text?
A synonym for literary text.
What is Fiction text?
This strategy is used to determine an unknown word or phrase in a sentence.
What are Context Clues?
This is the recommended number of paragraphs in an essay.
What are five paragraphs?
Examples of these are: I, Me, Us, We, and they are used in writing in a specific point-of-view. What are they and what is the point-of-view?
What are pronouns used when writing in first-person point-of-view?
The portion of the text used to support a point, or claim, that you are making in your paragraph or essay.
What is textual evidence?
This is what the character looks like; what the character says; the actions of the character, and the things others say about the character.
What is characterization? or What is character traits?
Is a letter or word, placed in the front of a word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
A statement used in an essay or narrative, usually at the end of each paragraph, used to state your opinion, interpretation, insight, analysis, personal reaction, evaluation or reflection about a concrete detail in an essay or narrative.
What is commentary?
When using dialogue because two people in a story are talking, this is done every time a new person speaks.
What is starting a new paragraph?
When reading informational text, and answering the multiple choice questions that follow, this should be done every time to make sure you are selecting the correct answer.
What is going back and finding the answer in the text?
The words the author uses to help the reader understand the smells in the story, the way something feels, or the color of something.
What is sensory language?
This is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to make a new word. It will help you in understanding the part of speech of the word.
What is a suffix?
Words used to show that you are moving from one event or topic to another, usually at the beginning of a paragraph or between sentences.
What are transition words?
When using dialogue, and the sentence is starting with someone speaking, these are the first TWO things you need to do.
What is open quotation marks and a capital letter?
This is the type of writing you do after you look for two-three similarities and two-three differences among all of the articles read. Sometimes you read two articles, or it can be three.
What is a compare/contrast essay?
Name any FOUR types of figurative language.
What is a metaphor? a simile? a hyperbole? an onomatopoeia? personification? an idiom? imagery?
This is what is left after the prefix and suffix are removed; it's the most basic part of the word.
What is the root word?
These are the three main parts of a personal narrative writing.
What is incident, response, reflection?
When writing dialogue, these two things are required when the character has finished speaking AND the sentence has ended.
What is the final punctuation mark then close quotation marks?
This is the type of essay you write when you are trying to convince someone to believe your claim or see your point-of-view in a particular situation or topic.
What is an argumentative essay?
This is used to grab the readers attention at the beginning of your story or essay; there are FOUR.
What is a hook?
What is AQQS? Ancedote, Question, Quote, Statement of Intrigue.
This sentence is in the introductory paragraph, and it expresses the main idea of your essay.
What is a thesis statement?
The format used in writing tells your point, explains your point, proves it, analyzes the connection between your point and your proof, and ends with a final statement of commentary or a comment.
What is MEPAC?
This refers to the practice of varying the length and structure of the sentences in your story, narrative, or essay to avoid the reader getting bored and to give emphasis to certain things. In other words, use a variety of sentences, some simple sentences, compound sentences, and compound-complex sentences.
What is sentence variety?