Vocabulary Words
Reading Skills
Writing Skills
Applications of Reading Skills
Applications of Writing Skills
100

Provides info for figuring out meaning of an unfamiliar word.

 What's Context Clues mean?

100

Reveals nature of characters.

What's Characterization do?

100

Speeds or slows pace.

What's pacing do?

100

The character's perspective in the story.  

What are feelings attitudes and opinions?  

100

Coming up with your lists and details. 

What's brainstorming.  

200

Solidified, hardened, frozen.  

What's congealed?

200

Develops the sequence of events.

What's plot.

200

Provides support for the main plot.  

What is subplot?  

200

Their tone.  

A character's what, shows how they feel about something.  

200

Diction

Your choice of words and style.

300

Directly stated.  

What does explicit meaning, mean?

300

Defines time and or place.

Explains setting.

300

This is text structure that provides info that have already occurred. 

What's flashback?  

300

Unclear meaning, or several interpretations of text. 

What's Ambiguity?

300

Perspective.

How the characters view and process the story events. 

400

Implied text.  

What's implicit meaning mean?

400

 Author's attitude or approach.

Define tone. 

400

The purpose.

Why am I writing this? 

400

The climax.

What is a dramatic turning point?  

400

By writing a rough draft. 

How do you start an essay?

500

Indecisive or undetermined.  

What's irresolute?

500

When I read something very expressive.

What is figurative language?  

500

The audience.

Who will be reading this?  

500

Satire

What is humor that ridicules something?

500

The main idea and underlying meaning of a work.

What's the theme?  

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