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