6 Traits
Reading Stratgies
Poetry and Prose
Nonfiction
Parts of Speech
100
Ideas, Organization, Sentence Fluency, Voice, Conventions, Word Choice.
What are the 6 Traits?
100
When you use symbols and comments to record your thoughts about the reading.
What is Marking the Text?
100
A paragraph in poetry.
What is a Stanza?
100
The most important idea in a text.
What is Main Idea?
100
Person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a Noun?
200
Using sensory language, figurative language, words with strong connotations, and using descriptive language.
What is Word Choice?
200
Word parts that go at the beginning, middle, and end of words that help us to know the meaning of unknown words.
What are Prefixes, Suffixes, and Word Roots?
200
Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
200
True statements versus personal thoughts.
What is Fact and Opinion?
200
An action word.
What is a Verb?
300
Your own individual fingerprint in your writing.
What is Voice?
300
An educated guess on something that has already happened in the text based on information from the text.
What is an Inference?
300
The same first letter and first sound repeated.
What is Alliteration?
300
A piece of writing that is completely true.
What is Nonfiction?
300
A word that describes a noun.
What is an Adjective?
400
The topics you discuss and the way your paper is put together.
What is Organization and Ideas?
400
Clues in the text that help you to understand meanings of words or clarify events in the story.
What are Context Clues?
400
Sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell that paint a clear picture. (NOT Sensory Language)
What is Imagery?
400
Putting a piece of writing into your own words.
What is Paraphrasing?
400
A word that describes a verb or adjective.
What is an Adverb?
500
Using various lengths and structures so that your paper flows smoothly.
What is Sentence Fluency?
500
The feeling of the word instead of the definition of the word.
What are Connotations?
500
The rhyme scheme of this poem. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Kittens are cute, And you are too.
What is ABCB?
500
When you take exact sentences from a text to support an idea or thought.
What are Quotes?
500
A word that shows position of a noun.
What is a Preposition?
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