Argumentative Writing
Summaries
Informational Essays
Structures for Effective Reading
Vocabulary
100
A debatable statement that addresses and restates a prompt (answers a question).
What is a claim.
100
You should include "tag" in your first sentence of your summary, which stand for...?
What are title, author, genre.
100
Informational essays are longer versions of what?
What are summaries.
100
Words that are emphasized or repeated in a text that you should circle to help you determine main idea.
What are key terms.
100
Using clues and evidence to draw your own conclusions about something because it isn't explicitly stated.
What is generating an inference.
200
Facts and examples that are used to support a person's opinion.
What is evidence.
200
This statement tells the reader what the entire work being summarized is about.
What is the main idea statement.
200
This is what you include at the end of an informational essay that uses more than one source's facts or details.
What is a bibliography or references sheet.
200
This strategy helps you keep track of what information comes from what part of a text.
What is numbering the paragraphs.
200
The act of proving and/or explaining why you believe what you are arguing.
What is justifying or justification.
300
This part of the essay explains how the facts and examples presented in an argumentative text support the presented claim.
What is commentary.
300
These are BIG parts of a story that explain or elaborate on the main idea.
What are major details.
300
The term used to describe when a piece of writing does not take a side when presenting facts; avoiding bias.
What is objective.
300
This is when you underline/highlight important lines in a text and leave notes next to it explaining its significance.
What is annotating.
300
The point in a narrative or fictional story where the conflict is peaking and about to be solved.
What is the climax.
400
The two words we use when discussing evidence. One ensures we have ENOUGH evidence and the other ensures the evidence is RELATED and actually supports the claim. * Must get both words to get the points.
What are sufficient and relevant.
400
These are insignificant pieces of information that typically do not belong in a summary.
What are minor details.
400
These are what you include in an essay after presenting information from a source to ensure that source gets credit.
What are in-text citations.
400
Titles, sub-headers, pictures, captions, bolded terms.
What are text features.
400
A writing technique where the author gives us clues about what might happen next in a story.
What is foreshadowing.
500
A possible transitional phrase used to connect the evidence to the commentary in an argumentative piece of writing.
Possible answers: This shows... This proves... This demonstrates... Therefore...
500
The length of your summary and the amount/types of details you include depend on what THREE things?
What are task, purpose, and audience.
500
When do you include opinion in an informational essay?
When is never.
500
This is when you skim and scan text features in an effort to predict what the main idea of a text is.
What is previewing the text.
500
The moral or message of a story or poem.
What is theme.
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