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100

To tell a story that you would enjoy and makes you laugh

Entertain

100

When the person who is telling the story is the main character. 

First-Person

100

To restate the most important information in a text.

Summarize

100

Statements that can be proven true

Facts

100

The author's purpose for writing (facts) argumentative, (emotions) persuade (information) inform, or (enjoyment) entertain)

Author's purpose

200

The center of interest or attention

Focus

200

The narrator is talking to "you" 

Second-Person 

200

A judgement based on reasoning rather than something stated directly in the passage. "Reading between the lines"

Inference

200

Statements that cannot be proven true

Opinion

200

To give information about a particular topic; to explain why something is important

Inform

300

How the author writes; an author's use of language ; it's effects and appropriateness to the author's intent and theme 

Style

300

To convince others to feel a particular way about a topic.

Persuade

300

The title at the start of a page or section, usually bold or dark print.

Heading

300
The attitude of the author towards the audience and characters

Tone

300

To examine and judge carefully

Evaluate

400

A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships 

Graphic Organizer 

400

Photographs, drawings, maps, or other pictures that give additional information about the text.

Graphic

400

Text that is next to the photo or graphic

Caption

400

The fluency, rhythm and liveliness in writing that make it unique to the writer. Your written personality the "style" you write with (friendly, formal, everyday, short, long sentences)

Voice

400

Point of view in which the narrator is not a character in the story. Pronouns they/them

Third-Person

500

The clear and easy expression of ideas, either written or spoken 

Fluency 

500

A visual aid that condenses information into a series of rows, lines, or other shortened lists

Charts, Tables, Graphs

500

A secondary heading, the mini-topic related to the heading

Subheading

500

To restate a the text or a passage in other words, often to show understanding or clarify the meaning

Paraphrase

500

Point of view

the vantage point from which a story is told

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