Grammar
Essay Writing
Identifying Prompts
Identifying Texts
ELA Mix-Up
100

What is a noun?

What is a person, place, or thing.

100

What is a prompt?


What is question or statement that tells you what to write about.

100

What type of essay should you write if the prompt says to tell a story?

What is a narrative essay.

100

What type of text is Tortoise and the Hare?

What is fiction.

100

What does the author do when they want to make the reader laugh?

What is entertain?.

200

What is a verb?

What is an action word or a word that shows being.

200

What should a good response include?

what is a claim, evidence, and analysis.

200

What type of essay should be written for a fiction text with a character prompt?

What is a literary essay.

200

What type of text gives facts about animals or science?

What is nonfiction or informational text?

200

What do we call the words around an unknown word that help us figure out what it means?

What are context clues.

300

What is an adjective?

What is a word that describes a noun.

300

What is a thesis statement?

What is a sentence that states the main idea of an essay. 

300

What type of essay should be written if the prompt is about comparing two nonfiction texts?

What is an informational or compare-and-contrast essay?

300

What type of text has talking animals or magic?

What is a folktale or fantasy?

300

What do we call the person telling the story?

What is the narrator.

400

What is an adverb?

What is a word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

400

What is analysis in writing?

What is 

Explaining how your evidence supports your claim.

400

What type of essay should you write if the prompt asks for your opinion?

What is an opinion or argumentative essay?

400

What kind of text is used to teach a real topic with headings and diagrams?

What is informational text?

400

What is the main message or lesson in a story called?

What is the theme.

500

What is a preposition?

What is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.

500

What must always be provided in a response? (hint 3 things)

what is statement, evidence, and analysis

500

What type of essay should be written if the prompt asks how the setting affects the character in a story?

What is a literary analysis essay?

500

What type of text tells about someone’s life written by another person?

What is a biography?

500

What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

What is a simile uses "like" or "as" to compare; a metaphor says one thing is another.

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