Oh Good Grammar!
The type of letter at the beginning of sentences and proper nouns.
What are capital letters?
What is an ECR?
What poems are made of. Usually numbered in groups of 5.
What are lines?
The genre of text that is made-up or fake.
What is fiction?
The genre of text that gives facts and information about real topics or people.
What is nonfiction?
The two parts every complete sentence must have.
What are subject and predicate?
Important words from the prompt, the answer to the prompt, and written in a complete sentence.
What are things a claim statement/ central idea should include?
A group of lines separated by line breaks. Often referred to as the paragraph of a poem.
What is a stanza?
The 5-6 things all stories have.
What are story elements?
Details in non-fiction texts that can be proven.
What are facts?
The punctuation used only in contractions and to show ownership.
What are apostrophes?
Words or phrases straight from the text that support your answer to a prompt.
What is text evidence?
The type of language poets use to help their readers understand what mean in a creative way. (NOT what the text actually says.)
What is figurative language?
What you draw on scratch paper to track story elements as you read.
What is a plot mountain/story arc?
An informational text about someone's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
The type of words used to combine sentences, subjects, or predicates that usually follow a comma.
What are conjunctions? (FANBOYS)
Words or phrases used throughout an essay to help it flow.
What are transitions?
Comparing two things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The lesson the characters learn at the end of a story. Also known as the message.
What is theme?
What the author wants the audience to know about the topic.
What is main idea or central idea?
The punctuation that is used to show when someone is speaking.
What are quotation marks?
A sentence or 2 that restates the central idea and "wraps up" your essay.
What is a conclusion?
Comparing two things by saying one thing IS the other thing.
What is a metaphor?
Another word for the problem in a story?
What is conflict?
The details in nonfiction that you can see when scanning the passage. Examples include: photographs, captions, subtitles, diagrams, maps, bold words, etc.)
What are text features?
The type of punctuation used to list words or phrases in a series, or used with conjunctions to make compound sentences.
What are commas?
Your explanation of how the text evidence you chose connects to the central idea.
What is reasoning?
The "person talking" in a poem.
Who is the speaker?
How the conflict or problem in a story is resolved or solved.
What is resolution?
The way an author organizes information. (Examples include: compare & contrast, problem & solution, cause & effect, etc.)
What is text structure?