Argumentative
Non-Fiction
Academic
Fiction
Mystery
100

How a writer chooses words and style to share ideas. 

Author's use of language 

100

Author's attitude, serious, funny, angry and etc. 

Tone

100

Make a prediction by using text clues from the text 

HINT: Educational guess 

Context clues

Infer

100

Lesson Learned 

Theme 

100
The reason why a character does something their goal or what drives their actions in the story.

Character Motivation 

200

A cause or explanation for a belief or action.

Reason/Reasoning 

200

Short version/main points only 

HINT(SWBST) 

Summarize 

200

Decide what something means 

Conclude

200

When/Where

Setting

200

Main statement or claim 

Thesis

300

Using the idea itself as proof

Circular Reasoning 

300
Put it in your own words 

Paraphrase 

300

Add more ideas or details 

Develop

300

Story events

Plot

300

Reason for writing 

(P.I.E) 

Author's Purpose 

400

Compare two things

Analogy 

400
How writing is set up: Description, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution, Chronological order/ Sequence 

Organizational Pattern  

400

Explain why something happens

Reason

400

Prediction of what would happen in the future 

Foreshadow 

400

Big point/main idea

Key idea

500

Putting ideas side by side to show a major difference. 

Juxtapositions 

500

Main point/ central message

Controlling idea 

500

Details 

Describes 

500

Past scene

Flashback 

500
Proof directly from the text 

Text Evidence 

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