Reading
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the introduction?
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of what type of sentence? A sentence, fragment, or run on.
What is a run-on sentence.
True or false-if you have two subjects in a sentence (compound subject) you need a comma.
False. When you have a compound subject (2 subjects) you only need a connector.
What is an author?
Who is the person who wrote the book/story
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
What is an example of WHERE starter words?
What is about, above, along, around, across, against, among, after, at, by, behind, beside, beneath, below, before, between, down, from, in, into, inside, near, outside, out, off, on, onto, over, past, through, throughout, to, toward, under, underneath, up, upon.
What is the action part of the sentence is called?
What is the predicate/verb.
Does this sentence have mobility?
Gracefully, the ice skater glides across the ice.
This text structure could be used if an author wanted to describe the differences and similarities between cats and dogs.
What is compare and contrast?
This type of writing can be fiction or non-fiction, but is usually written as a story with characters, setting, a plot, and descriptive details.
What is narrative writing?
What is an example of WHEN starter words?
What is when, since, before, after, as, during, while
This type of word is a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun/subject
What is wrong with this sentence?
the kids swing slide and climb
The needs to be capitalized.
Series subject (3 subjects-listing) needs commas and connectors in between.
It needs a stop sign at the end.
Corrected sentence: The kids swing, slide, and climb.
This is the main message the author wants to convey in his/her story. This is the moral is the lesson that the writer wants you to learn from the story.
What is a theme?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
What is an example of WHY starter words?
What is to, so, for, because
When editing your work what should you check your sentences for?
Editing means checking the sentences for capitalization, punctuation, and subject/predicate agreement.
-Frame sentences by capitalizing the first letter of the first word of the sentence and placing a stop sign (?!.) at the end of each sentence.
-Check for two essential parts of a sentence (subject and action predicate)
-Check for subject/predicate agreement.
-Check to see that proper names are capitalized.
-Check to see if commas are needed or missing
The cat is meowing at its owner. It is probably hungry.
The first sentence is an observation. The second sentence is an _________.
What is an inference?
what is the last paragraph in an essay known as?
What is the conclusion
True or false? You can have a sentence without a subject.
False! All sentences have subjects
Does this sentence need commas or connector?
What are the predicate expanders (triangle starter words) in this sentence?
Sneakily, Sam hides inside the bathroom without getting caught.
Sneakily -how
inside- where
without- how
Sam is the subject hides is the action predicate