Reading
The central message or lesson of a story
What is theme?
Tells the main idea of a paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
Describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
Fixing grammar, spelling, and punctuation
What is editing?
Briefly retelling key events
What is summarizing?
What is a narrative?
and, but, or, so
What are conjuctions?
Sally sells seashells
What is alliteration?
An incomplete sentence
What is a fragment?
When the story is told using the pronoun I?
What is 1st person point of view?
The 2 D's in TADDF
What are dialogue and description?
Describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb and
typically end in ly
What is an adverb?
The pillow is as soft as cotton
What is a simile?
Words that connect ideas
What are transition words?
maps, charts, graphs
What are text Features?
Writing that shares what you think and why
What is opinion writing?
Two sentences incorrectly joined
What is a run-on?
The old house groaned in protest as the storm pushed against its walls.
What is personification?
Using surrounding text to figure out the meaning of a word.
What are context clues?
Using clues + prior knowledge to figure out something not directly stated
What is an inference?
States the claim and reasons.
What is a thesis statement?
Punctuation used to separate ideas or items
What is a comma?
Her voice was velvet in a room full of broken glass.
What is a metaphor?
In 1890, in the snowy mountains of Switzerland, a small village sat quietly beneath towering peaks. Smoke drifted from stone chimneys as horse-drawn sleds moved slowly through narrow, icy streets.
What is setting?