Reading Skills
Plot and Setting and Mood
Writing
Poetry
100
The most important message about what you are reading
What is main idea
100
The chain of related events that tells you what happens in a story.
What is plot
100
Paragraphs are like a _________.
What is hamburger
100
a poem that tells a story
What is narrative
200
Each day, more than 50,000 cars travel along West Street. Unfortunately, many of the people in those cars throw their trash out the window. Litter has become a serious problem on West Street. It ruins the beauty of the area, threatens wildlife, and presents a danger to drivers and bicyclists.
What is: Litter has become a serious problem on West Street.
200
provides a background—a time period and place in which the action occurs.
What is setting
200
First step of writing
What is pre-write
200
the repetition of consonant sounds
What is alliteration
300
What are the "WH"
What is who, what, when, where why
300
The overall atmosphere or effect of a work of literature.
What is mood
300
The sentences that support the main idea are...
What is details or supporting sentences
300
What is a sonnet?
What is a 14 line poem
400
Each day, more than 50,000 cars travel along West Street. Unfortunately, many of the people in those cars throw their trash out the window. Litter has become a serious problem on West Street. It ruins the beauty of the area, threatens wildlife, and presents a danger to drivers and bicyclists. what is the "what"
What i: more than 50,000 cars
400
At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. what is the mood
What is frightening
400
These kind of words are: first, second, last, finally
What is transition
400
the pattern of sound in poetry
What is rhyme scheme
500
Each day, more than 50,000 cars travel along West Street. Unfortunately, many of the people in those cars throw their trash out the window. Litter has become a serious problem on West Street. It ruins the beauty of the area, threatens wildlife, and presents a danger to drivers and bicyclists. What is the "who"
What is: many of the people in those cars
500
She looked across the sea of people as she made her way through the crowd. The busy waterfront bustled with families eager to enjoy a day at the coast. Bouncing beach balls and colorful towels dotted the sunny boardwalk. Which are setting words?
What is sea of people, busy waterfront busstled with familes, day at the coast, bouncing beach balls, colorful towels, sunny boardwalk
500
the last stage of the writing process
What is publish
500
1. The Waning Moon And like a dying lady, lean and pale Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain, ____ The moon arose up in the murky east, __ A white and shapeless mass. __
What is a a b b c d
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