Group A
To tell a story that you would enjoy and makes you laugh.
Entertain
The center of interest or attention.
Focus
A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships.
Graphic Organizer
A judgement based on reasoning rather than something stated directly in the passage. "Reading between the lines".
Inference
To give information about a particular topic; to explain why something is important.
Inform
When the person telling the story is the main character.
First Person
The narrator is talking to "you."
Second Person
The title at the start of a page or section, usually bold or dark print.
Heading
To restate the most important information in a text.
Summarize
How the writes; an author's use of language; its effects and appropriateness to the author's intent and theme.
Style
The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters.
Tone
The fluency, rhythm and liveliness in writing that make it unique to the writer. Your written personality the "style" you write with (friendly. formal, every day short/long sentences.
Voice
A visual that condenses information into a series of row, lines, or other shortened lists.
Charts, Tables, and Graphics
To restate a text or passage in other words, often to show understanding or clarify the meaning.
Paraphrase
To convince others to feel a particular way about a topic.
Persuade
Statements that can be proven true.
Facts
Text that is next to photo or graphic.
Caption
A secondary heading, the mini-topic related to the heading.
Subheading
The author's purpose for writing (facts) argumentative, (emotions) persuade, (information) inform, or (enjoyment) entertain.
Author's Purpose
The vantage point from which a story is told.
Point of View
To examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Statements that cannot be proven true.
Opinions
Photographs, drawings, maps, or other pictures that give additional information about the text.
Graphics
The clear and easy expression of ideas, either written or spoken.
Fluency
Point of view in which the narrator is not a character in the story. Pronouns them, they.
Third Person