Vocabulary
This means to write directly on text in order to highlight important parts.
What is annotating?
This is the first stage of reading, when you look over titles, objectives, illustrations, etc.
What is previewing?
This is the main protagonist of News of the World.
Who is Captain Kidd?
The verb of the following sentence:
The man in the blue jacket is my father.
What is "is"?
This is a way to organize your ideas into categories and subcategories, using symbols like I, II, III, or a, b, c, to organize.
What is an outline?
This vocabulary word means to do something intentionally or on purpose.
What is deliberately?
This is when your friends read over your paper and give you feedback.
What is peer editing?
This is the full name of the child who is being transported back to her relatives.
Who is Johanna Leonberger?
The type of sentence (simple, compound, or complex) below:
Because you are my friend, I will buy you lunch.
What is complex?
This is what you add next to direct quotes so you know who is speaking.
What is a dialogue tag?
This is the dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
This is where most topic sentences of a paragraph are located.
What is at the beginning?
This is the former profession of the Captain, what he spent his settled years doing.
What is a newspaper publisher, or deliverer of the news?
The main error of the following sentence:
In the morning if it is sunny.
What is a sentence fragment?
This is the way you organize your information when you are telling a story.
What is time order or chronological order.
This is a phrase or saying unique to a culture. It is "idiotic" when translated.
What is an idiom?
The main idea of each support paragraph is called a major detail. The examples, descriptions, and interesting information are called what?
What are minor details or supporting details?
This is how they killed the bad guy Almay.
What is using dimes as ammunition to shoot at him?
The correct verb choice in the following sentence:
There (was, were) two children in the park.
What is "were"?
Writers sometimes start essays with anecdotes, a joke, a quote, or a question. What are these called?
What are attention-getters?
This word means servile or someone who is always obedient.
What is obsequious?
These are small words that guide a reader through a passage, giving the reader direction.
What are transitions?
This is the war that recently ended, which causes Texas to be so unstable.
What is the Civil War?
The verb that needs to be changed in the following sentence:
Mary sang in the choir, and when she saw her parents in the audience, she is happy.
What is "is"? (Should be was.)
This is the final paragraph of an essay, when you wrap everything up.
What is a conclusion?