A type of writing that is based on facts and tells both sides of a situation.
What is Argumentative writing?
100
Words that take the place of a noun in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
100
Periods, commas, and question marks are examples of __________________.
What is punctuation?
200
The series of events that form a story in a specific order.
What is plot?
200
Similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
200
Words in the beginning of essays that help with understanding things such as sequence and time.
What is transition words/phrases?
200
Under is an example of a __________.
What is an adverb.
200
Captions, bold words, and graphs are examples of __________.
What are text features?
300
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
300
A relationship where one thing makes another thing happen.
What is cause and effect?
300
CUPS stands for________________.
What is Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling.
300
Dr. Cunningham is the principal of Tucker Middle School. Dr. Cunningham and Tucker Middle School are examples of __________________ (be specific).
What are proper nouns?
300
Three test taking strategies to use DURING TESTING.
What is chunking, preview the questions, answer the easy questions first, process of elimination, answer everything, underline/circle key words and phrases, etc.
400
A category of passages that have a particular style, form, and content such as fiction and nonfiction.
What is genre?
400
A statement that can be proven.
What is a fact?
400
The attention-grabber in an essay.
What is a hook?
400
I studied hard for my test. The word studied is an example of a ___________.
What is a verb?
400
The way an author chooses to write.
What is style?
500
The 5 stages (in order) of the plot diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
500
When a meaning is inferred from a certain word or words.
What is connotation?
500
Forms of writing that lets the reader know about something that is factual.
What is informational text?
500
In the example, the cookies are mine, the word mine is an example of what type of pronoun?
What is a possessive pronoun?
500
They went to the beach. The word they is an example of a subjective or objective pronoun.