Writing
Test Taking Strategies
Literacy Skills
Vocabulary
Literary Techniques and Devices
100
The information you use to back up your inference.
What is textual evidence?
100
Crossing out the "just not right" answers.
What is process of elimination?
100
A paragraph that sums up the most important parts of a text.
What is a summary?
100
Definition: Give details about someone or something.
What is describe?
100
Love is blind
What is a metaphor?
200
The first sentence in a short response.
What is a restated question and inference?
200
A way to know what you're looking for as you read a text on the test.
What is reading the questions before the text?
200
When you go beyond the text and read between the lines.
What is an inference?
200
Definition: To point out
What is identify?
200
Your smile is as bright as the sun?
What is a simile?
300
The information you use to explain the importance of your evidence.
What is an elaboration.
300
Making notes in the margins in order to better understand the text.
What is annotating?
300
The message of an informational text.
What is the central idea?
300
Definition: Finding the differences between two things.
What is contrast?
300
And baby no we got bad blood.
What is alliteration?
400
The number of paragraphs you should have in your essays.
What is 4 paragraphs?
400
The message/lesson of a literary text.
What is theme?
400
Definition: To combine parts to form a whole.
What is synthesize?
400
first person, second person, and third person narration.
What is point of view?
500
Definition: To make a judgement
What is evaluate?
500
Lightening dance across the sky.
What is personification?
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