Things Good Readers Do and Know
What does a Good Reader read before beginning an MCAS passage?
What is read the blurb and look at the number of paragraphs in the text.
What part of speech is a person, place, idea or thing?
What is a noun.
What is a form of figurative language that compares two things and does not use the words "like" or "as" EXAMPLE: Love is a beautiful rose.
What is a Metaphor
Just like prose is chunked in paragraphs, poems are chunked into these
stanzas
What are the two types of writing you could be asked to do?
What is a narrative essay or an expository essay
What do good readers look for in a question?
What are key words and phrases?
What describes the noun? (Example: The FUZZY, BLUE blanket was on the couch.)
What are adjectives
What is a form of figurative language that directly compares two things by using the words "like" or "as"? EXAMPLE: Her eyes sparkle like diamonds.
What are Similes
What do we call the figurative painting of a vivid picture in the mind of a reader with words?
What is imagery?
What is the first thing you should when responding to the text?
What is read and analyze the prompt
When you use your background knowledge, the author's clues and images to make conclusions about the text it is called
Making inferences
What is the verb in the following sentence: The child thought about her dog all day.
What is thought (to think)
What is a form of figurative language that gives human traits to objects, animals or ideas? EXAMPLE: The rain danced on the roof all night long.
Personification
What is the name of the musical beat to a poem?
What is rhythm?
What should you include in your topic sentence?
What is GTA and TTQA
Name the reasons why an author writes something (author's purpose):
1. to entertain
2. to inform
3. to persuade
Use a pronoun in place of the capitalized nouns: ANGELICA and RUBEN swept the entire classroom.
What are they
What is obvious and intentional exaggeration? EXAMPLE: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole
What is the name of the poetry device which begins two or more consecutive words with the same letter and sound? EXAMPLE: Two terrible tigers tortured two tiny turtles.
What is alliteration
What can you add to your narrative writing to elaborate?
What are sensory details, dialogue, and figurative language?
What are the structures in a passage?
What are:
Cause and Effect
Problem and Solution
Compare and Contrast
Chronological/Sequential
Description
What is the adverb in the following sentence: Jamari quickly walked home through the neighborhood.
What is quickly
What do you call a word that imitates (sounds like) the sound it represents? EXAMPLE: buzz, bang, crackle, pop
What is onomatopoeia
Matching the final sound in two or more words is called? Example: rose, hose, doze, toes
What is rhyme
What should you add to your expository writing to help prove your claim?
What are quotes from the text and what is my explanation of the quotes?