Grammar
Plural form of 'animal'
Questions we ask to find the main idea in a text
What is: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
What is looking similar to your surroundings?
Informative vs. Opinion essay
What is: informative teaches the reader about something using facts and details, while opinion tries to persuade the reader using an argument.
Cheetahs have this on their bodies to hide from prey
What is camouflague?
Job of adverbs.
What is describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs?
Difference between compare and contrast
Decisions
What is choices that you make about something after thinking about it?
After we write a detail, we need to use ____ to back it up.
What is text evidence?
The ant saved the dove by doing this.
What is biting the hunter on the leg, making him miss his arrow?
Past tense form of meet
What is one thing that makes something else happen?
What is people who do something without being forced and without being paid?
The person who is telling the story is know as _______.
What is the narrator?
How deaf people communicate with each other
American Sign Language (ASL)
The acronym that helps us remember the conjunctions
What is FANBOYS (For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
Point of view
What is the opinion of the author, who is telling the story, or how the world is experienced?
Innovation
What is a new idea, product, or method of doing something?
In order, the parts of an essay are _____, ______, _______.
What is introduction, body, conclusion?
The woman who invented Caller ID
Who is Shirley Jackson?
Plural form of leaf
What is leaves?
Theme
What is the life lesson, or moral the author wants to teach in a story/text?
Vigorous
What is something that is done with great energy?
Words that connect one paragraph to the next one.
What are linking words?
The name of the god who made everything King Midas touched turn into gold.
What is Dionysus?