Traits of Writing
Vocabulary
Comprehension Strategies
Grammar
Current Events
100
main topic of a piece of writing
What is Idea
100
to read closely and take notes on the reading
What is annotate?
100
Asking questions while you read
What is Questioning?
100
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
100
a pandemic that began in Africa and is spreading around the world
What is ebola
200
We use paragraphs and transition words to help with this trait of writing.
What is Organization?
200
to explain in greater detail
What is elaborate?
200
Making a mental image of the text
What is Visualizing?
200
a descriptive word that modifies the noun
What is an adjective?
200
beat UAB 25-17 last weekend
Who are the Arkansas Razorbacks?
300
How smoothly a sentence reads
What is Sentence Fluency?
300
think about (something) carefully, especially before making a decision or reaching a conclusion
What is ponder?
300
linking the text to real events or other text
What is Connecting?
300
the kind of sentence that asks a question
What is an interrogative sentence?
300
one of the men running for US Senate from Arkansas
Who is Tom Cotton/Mark Pryor?
400
the vocabulary a writer chooses to convey meaning
What is word choice?
400
of vital importance; crucial OR giving an authoritative command
What is imperative?
400
reading between the lines
What is Inferring?
400
a word that modifies a verb, adverb, or adjective
What is an adverb?
400
an Islamic extremist group currently targeting Iraq and Syria
What is ISIS?
500
the personal tone and flavor of the author's message
What is voice?
500
producing a great deal of profit.
What is lucrative?
500
putting all of the strategies together to make sense of a text
What is synthesizing?
500
the word that a pronoun refers to
What is an antecedent?
500
North Korean leader who went missing for six weeks because of a bad ankle
Who is Kim Jong Un?
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