Reading Comprehension
These are techniques used by authors to convince their audience or readers.
What are persuasive techniques?
This is a type of writing that only includes the main point and supporting details of a given text.
What is a summary?
This is a type of language that is usually used in business settings.
What is formal language?
This is a punctuation mark that looks like a little horizontal line.
What is a hyphen?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
These are ideas in a text that describe or elaborate the main idea.
It is a text which argues a point of view,
to convince the reader to agree with the author.
What is persuasive speech/text?
This is a question which does not require an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
This is a punctuation mark indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses.
What is a semicolon?
This is a story element that can affect the whole plot of the story.
What is a setting?
This is a skill to reach a conclusion based on reasoning and evidence.
What is an inference?
Paraphrasing and summarising help you remember and organise information.
Why is summarising important?
This is a kind of verb that helps out other verbs.
What is an auxiliary verb?
This is a punctuation mark that is used in narrative to omit some part of a sentence or event.
What is ellipsis?
This is the speech famously given by Abraham Lincoln.
This relies on a situation's facts to figure something out that isn't obviously stated or seen.
What is a conclusion?
These are tools to help you improve the quality of your writing.
What are ARMS and CUPS?
These are auxiliary verbs which cannot usually work alone. They are used with a main verb.
What is a modal verb?
This is a punctuation mark that indicates a stronger pause than a comma, but not a stop like a full stop.
What is a semicolon?
This is the common term used to describe the sequence of events within a story.
What is a plot mountain?
These includes recall, inference, evaluation and application.
What are the levels of questioning?
A persuasive text has an opening paragraph. main body paragraphs and a concluding paragraph.
What is the structure of persuasive speech/text?
These are simple, compound and complex sentences.
What are sentence structures?
This person is a young environmental activist.