Grammar
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
The group of people the text is addressing
Who is the audience?
The process of dividing the text into smaller pieces
What is chunking?
Multi
What is many?
This is your school mascot.
What are the Bearcats?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are FANBOYS?
The reason the author wrote the text
What is the author's purpose?
The most important idea in the passage
What is the main idea?
Plex
What are parts or units?
Fantastic!
A clause that has a subject and a verb and can stand alone.
What is an independent clause?
Visually descriptive language in a text
What is imagery?
To make an educated guess by connecting pieces of the text
What is making an inference?
Grad
What is a step?
Give your team a team name!
Incredible!
A sentence with an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
The emotions of the words of a passage
What is tone?
A type of text that explains the steps of a procedure
What is a procedural text?
-tion
What is an action or state of being?
Name the last book you read (can't be a textbook).
Phenomenal!
A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
The final parts of a story after the resolution when the strands of the story are tied together.
What is the denouement?
A type of text that clarifies or explains something.
What is an expository text?
-ile
What is relating to?
Give one of your teammates a genuine compliment!
Awesome!