Context Clues L.E.A.D.S.
By the time police found William he had been a fugitive from the law for 56 years.
This word means a person who runs away to avoid capture.
What is fugitive?
This is what should be reemphasized in a concluding paragraph of an essay.
What is thesis?
This is when an article favors one side of an issue.
What is bias?
This is the main idea in an informational text.
What is purpose or argument?
This is the part of speech that is bold in the following sentence.
Vision was made out of shiny red metallic vibranium.
What is an adjective?
The sloth can hardly be described as lively. The furry mammal is so torpid that algae actually grow on its coat giving it a greenish hue.
This word is the antonym of the bold word.
What is lively?
For our Tuesday writing prompts, this is the minimum number of sentences you should have per paragraph.
What is 5?
These two words mean words that are specific to a profession or hobby.
What is jargon/terminology?
The angle from which the text is told. 1rst person, 2nd person, 3rd person
What is point of view?
This is the part of speech that is bold in the following sentence. (be specific!)
Tony designed and built Avengers Tower.
What is a proper noun?
The US government has labeling requirements on vitamins and other dietary supplements. The manufacturer must be able to substantiate any claims it makes with facts or results of scientific studies. The government can take action against a company for making misleading statements.
This word means to show by good evidence.
What is substantiate?
You are asked to avoid these two things every Tuesday writing prompt.
run-on sentences and sentence fragments
Name 3 types of evidence.
What is fact, quote, example, statistic, or personal experience?
This term is words that are the vocal imitation of a sound. Examples: BooM! Pow! Buzz!
Double Points if spelled correctly!
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the part of speech that is bold in the following sentence.
Freya forgot her helmet so she ran back to get it. Odin winked his eye at her as they joined the fight.
What are pronouns?
The shrew is a tiny, mouse-like mammal with an elevated metabolic rate. In the space of just one minute, it breathes about eight hundred times, and its heart beats about one thousand times. The shrew is also voracious. Every day, it eats its entire body weight in prey such as insects, worms, and salamanders.
This word means having a huge appetite.
What is voracious?
What are Point, Evidence/Example, Explain, Link?
Define paraphrasing and plagiarism.
the restating of information in one’s own words.
taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
This is anything that provides information and facts.
What is source/reference?
This is the part of speech that is bold in the following sentence.
Riri quickly followed Shuri, boastfully explaining her project as they toured Wakanda. Shuri even encouraged her. Both of them were happily sharing stories.
What is an adverb?
What does L.E.A.D.S. stand for?
What is Logic, Example, Antonym, Definition, Synonym?
Write out the correct format and punctuation with an in-text citation for this quote from page 1 of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" (Tolkien 1).
Name 3 examples of CREDIBLE resources.
What are dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, textbooks, Google scholar, peer-reviewed journals, government agencies, research think tanks, and major newspapers?
These two terms refer to words or phrases specific to a job, hobby, or area of study.
What is terminology and jargon?
What part of speech is bold in the following:
Spiderman swung between the skyscrapers, over the citizens below, and through the scaffolding of a construction site.
Wanda likes to cook paprikash and share it. Not everyone has heard of it or tasted it before.
Double Points for Both!!!
What is a preposition?
What is a conjunction?