Text Types and Production
What is the term for a piece of writing that tells a story and includes characters, setting, and plot?
What is a narrative?
What are "text features" and why would a reader use them?
What are headings, subheadings, bullet points, images, and captions used to aid comprehension and navigate texts?
What is the main purpose of an argumentative text?
What is to convince the reader to believe or do something?
Name three types of credible sources you can use for research.
What are books, academic websites, interviews, journals, or expert sources? (Accept any three)
What is a collective noun? Give one example.
What is a noun that refers to a group? (Examples: team, class, family, audience, etc.)
Name three poetic techniques you can use to create imagery and emotion in poetry.
What are stanzas, rhyme scheme, figurative language, sound devices, and imagery?
Name two text features that help you understand a nonfiction text more clearly.
What are headings, subheadings, captions, images, diagrams, graphs, charts, or bold text?
Name two different text types and explain how their purposes differ.
What are narrative (entertain/tell a story), informative (explain/inform), persuasive (convince), or descriptive (create imagery)? (Accept any two with correct purpose explanations)
Define credible
What is true or believable?
Name two strategies you can use to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are using context clues, looking at word parts (prefixes/suffixes), using a dictionary, or asking for help? (Accept any two)
When you adapt a myth or historical story into your own version, what are you creating?
What is an adaptation?
Where is the central or main idea of the entire passage located
What is the last sentence of the first paragraph (introduction)?
How does an author's perspective influence the way they present information in a text?
What is that their beliefs, values, and experiences shape the details they include and how they describe events?
When you integrate information from sources into your own writing, what should you always include?
What is a citation or reference to where the information came from?
What is the difference between a subjective and objective pronoun. Give an example of each
What is subjective takes the place of the noun (I, you, he, she, they, we, our, it), and the objective receives the action (me, you, him, her, them, it)
List two ways a writer uses figurative language to affect the meaning or mood of a text.
What are metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, or other literary devices?
What type of text(s) uses statistical, expert opinions, and or objective evidence
What is expository and argumentative texts?
Compare a narrative text written in first-person perspective with one written in third-person perspective. How does the perspective change what the reader knows and feels?
What is first-person shares the narrator's thoughts/feelings directly, while third-person provides outside observation and may share multiple characters' perspectives?
Explain the difference between locating, gathering, and integrating information in the research process.
What is locating = finding sources, gathering = collecting information, and integrating = combining it into your own work?
What is "academic vocabulary" and give one example.
What is vocabulary used in school across different subjects? (Examples: analyze, evidence, conclude, etc.)
Explain how poetic techniques like alliteration and assonance contribute to the overall effect of a poem.
What is that they create rhythm, emphasis, musicality, or emotional impact?
What do all writing types (narrative, expository, argumentative, and poetry) have in common?
What is an introduction, body, and conclusion?
You're reading two texts about the same historical event—one from a primary source and one from a modern textbook. How might their purposes and perspectives differ, and why?
What is the primary source reflects the perspective of someone who lived it with bias/emotions, while the textbook aims to be objective and informative from a modern viewpoint? (Accept variations that address purpose and perspective differences)
You're researching "climate change." How would you determine if a website is a credible source? Name at least three factors to consider.
What are author credentials, publication date, bias, citations, and domain (.edu, .org, .gov)?
Use word analysis to break down the word "misunderstand" and explain its meaning using word parts.
What is "mis-" = wrong, "understand" = comprehend, so "misunderstand" = to comprehend incorrectly?