Reading Skills
What is skimming?
Finding the main idea in each paragraph.
What’s a complex sentence?
A complete thought connected by a subordinator to an incomplete thought
What are the 5 steps in the writing process of a paragraph?
-understand the propmt.
-brainstrom/ plan
- research for evidence
-write
-edit
What are the most common endings of a noun?
-ation, -ment, -ship, -ity, -or/er
How can you organize your notes of a text?
Cornell note taking style. Use abbreviations and symbols. Main ideas on the left and details on the right.
What is not a main idea? and how do you find the main idea?
An example, numbers or quotations. You read the first and the last sentence in each paragraph.
What’s the punctuation rule of compound sentences?
Comma before the FANBOYS
What is the development of a paragraph?
Topic sentence
explanation
reasons
example/ evidence
results
example/ evidenceconcluding sentence
What should you think about before you write your verb in a sentence?
tense, agreement, second verb
I need to study harder. Give me advice that is culturally appropriate.
If I were you, I would study harder.
How about studying a bit harder?
How do you skim a text?
Read the first and the last sentence of each paragraph
What’s the punctuation rule of complex sentences?
Subordinator in the beginning comma in the middle unless the subordinator is in the middle
What should an outline have? How should it be written?
Thesis statement and the plan of a body paragraph. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence, explanation, reasons, examples, results and research question. It should be written in short phrases.
Give a transition phrase to talk about results.
Therefore,
Which tense connects the past with the present in the English language? Give us an example
I have lived in Philly since I was a kid.
What’s a reference question?
The question that asks you to find the key noun that is hiding behind a pronoun.
Connect those two sentences with whom: I danced with a boy. He is from Germany.
The boy with whom I danced with is from Germany.
What's the difference between an example and evidence?
An example is a personal experience or knowledge.
Evidence can be an expert's opinion, or the results of a statistic, survey, etc. that proves or supports your point.
What's the word 'late' adjective or adverb?
What does 'lately' mean?
both
recently
How can you avoid plagiarism?
Don't use other people's work;
Don't have someone write your work;
Don't use writing assistant or AI;
Don't present other people's ideas as yours;
Use the MLA system to cite your source.
What is scanning?
To understand the details in a reading.
Give 3 agreement rules
1. The verb has to agree with the subject in number
2. Gerund takes singular verb
3. Uncountable nouns take singular verb
How do you put evidence from the reading into your paragraph?
transition phrase, direct quotation, citation
Give three different ways to write the difference between two people or things.
Girls like fashion while boys prefer sports.
Girls like fashion. On the other hand, boys prefer sports.
Although girls like fashion, boys prefer sports.
How can you maintain the coherence of your paragraph?
use a variety of connectors correctly.
transition phrases, FANBOYS, Subordinators, pronouns, and punctuation.