Fiction
This is the time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author gives information about a negative situation and explains one or more ways to fix it.
What is Problem & Solution?
This is the writing task that requires you to continue the next part of a fictional story or rewrite the story from a different point of view.
What is the Narrative Task?
These are the words that help you connect your ideas together and show how they're related. In an essay: For example, Additionally, Similarly, Furthermore. In a story: First, Next, Then, Later, Meanwhile.
What are transitions?
This is the testing tool that you can use to mark important information in the text as you are reading.
What is the highlighter?
This is the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story. Types: Character vs. Self, Character vs. Character, Character vs. Nature
What is the conflict?
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author discusses similarities and differences between people, things, concepts, or ideas.
What is Compare & Contrast?
This is the writing task that requires you to write an essay based on two fictional passages.
What is the Literary Analysis?
This is what we call the first sentence in a paragraph. Bonus: What is its job?
Topic Sentence/Point - states what it will be about.
What are introduction and conclusion paragraphs?
What is an antagonist?
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author provides readers with events in time order or a list of steps in a procedure.
What is Chronological Sequence?
This is the writing task that requires you to write an essay based on three nonfiction sources.
What is the Research Simulation?
This is what we call quotes copied word-for-word and details directly from the text used to support an idea or claim.
What is text evidence?
The number of sentences in a body paragraph.
6-8 sentences.
This is the phrase used to describe the perspective from which the narrator tells the story. Bonus: Name the two main kinds of narrators.
What is point of view?
First and Third Person
A statement that sums up what the text was mostly about.
What is MAIN Idea?
This sentence states the main point (central claim) of the entire essay. It should use keywords from the prompt and answer the question. It's the last sentence of an introduction.
What is the thesis statement?
This is the "chunk" of indented writing that helps separate a piece into different sections. In an essay, it must be 6-8 sentences; in a story, there are no rules for length.
What is a paragraph?
The type of prompt: Compare how the articles by Lauren Tarshis and Dyan deNapoli and the video describe penguin rescue efforts after oil spills. Support your essay with information from all three sources.
What is research simulation essay?
This is the central idea, lesson, or message a story reveals about life.
What is the theme?
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author describes reasons why something happens or the results of something.
What is Cause & Effect?
This is the only writing task that does not require a thesis statement.
What is the Narrative Task?
What should you include when writing a story? Hint: I.A.D.D.
What is inner-thinking, action, dialogue, and description?
This is what you can do on scrap paper while reading or before writing.
What is take notes or make a plan?