Essay
The number of examples recommended in your persuasive essay.
What is 2 examples?
What kind of statement ACKNOWLEDGES the "other side" of the argument to tear it down in a persuasive paper?
What is a COUNTER ARGUMENT?
Explanation of ARMS
What is revision strategy (Add, Remove, Move, Substitute)?
These are conjunctions used to combine two sentences.
What are FANBOYS?
This is a contraction for "it is".
What is "it's"?
What is the highest score you can get on an essay on STAAR?
What is 4 (or 16 points)?
Name one thing that you need in your 1st paragraph of a STAAR essay.
What is Thesis Statement, hook/attention-getter, preview of main points, transition?
A poem's symbol can usually be found here...
What is the poem's title?
To be a complete sentence, you must have what 2 things?
What is a subject and a verb?
This is the possessive form for the word "it".
What is "its"?
In an persuasive essay, you can agree with both sides of the argument.
This is comparing two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is simile?
A strategy that can be used to add a new sentence in between paragraphs (in the revision section).
What is summarizing the main idea of paragraph a and b in order to determine an appropriate transition?
What is a way to fix a run-on sentence?
What are FANBOYS and a comma, recombine/re-word
This word is a pronoun used to refer to a place.
What is "there"?
H.E.L.P stands for...
What is History, Experience, Literature, Pop Culture?
This is clues or hints that something is going to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
Explanation of CUPS
What is editing strategy (Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling)?
This type of sentence contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This word is the possessive form for the word "them" or "they". The toy was _______.
What is theirs?
The structure of the STAAR 26 line persuasive essay.
What is Hook, Thesis, Reason #1, Example #1, Reason #2, Example #2, Counter Argument, Conclusion?
This is comparing two unlike things using is, was, are or were.
What is a metaphor?
Explanation of SOAPSTONE
What is Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Synonym, Tone?
We use commas before conjunctions Which is NOT the correct way to use a comma before a conjunction?
A. We were hungry, so we grabbed a burger.
B. He wanted to buy the new game, but he didn't have enough money.
C. Do you want to ride your bike, or your scooter?
D. I love to sing yet, I am not very good at it.
What is D? I love to sing yet, I am not very good at it.
This is a contraction for the words "they are".
What is "they're"?