An indented section of writing. This part of text usually breaks up different ideas and has at least 5 sentences.
What is a paragraph?
100
A helpful and easy strategy where you go back into a text and read it again.
What is rereading?
100
This phrase will be at the end of almost every essay question! It is asking you to take words from the story and use them in your writing.
What is use evidence from the text?
100
A person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
100
The perspective of the author or narrator.
What is point of view?
200
This part of the text is sometimes numbered. It includes a sentence or two.
What is a line.
200
A strategy that can help you make sure you answered all of the questions, wrote an essay that makes sense and has correct punctuation, and overall did your best.
What is checking your work?
200
To read a story very carefully and think about what you are reading.
What is analyze?
200
An action or linking word.
What is a verb?
200
Something's ability to change or impact the story.
What is influence?
300
A story or section of a story.
What is a passage?
300
A strategy that helps you understand what type of things you will be asked before looking at the text.
What is reading the questions first?
300
A word that will be used in both multiple choice and essay questions. Fill in the blank. Use evidence from the text to ____________ your answer.
What is support?
300
A describing word.
What is an adjective?
300
The way in which a text is organized by the author.
What is structure?
400
A section of the PARCC test where you will be asked to write as much as you can.
What is an essay?
400
A way you can mark a question so that you can be reminded to go back to the question later.
What is bookmark tool?
400
When you see this word in an essay question, you need to write a lot of details about the topic. You might write details about the characters actions, words, or even how they look.
What is describe?
400
A word that takes the place of a noun. Example: He, she, they
What is a pronoun?
400
A phrase used a lot in PARCC that tells us that more than one answer might seem correct, but there is one choice that is better than the others.
What is the best answer?
500
More than one word but less than a sentence.
What is a phrase?
500
A button that can put an X over answer choices that you have decided are incorrect.
What is answer eliminator?
500
To come to a conclusion based on facts from a text.
What is infer?
500
A word that shows how an action is done. Example : gently, quietly.
What is an adverb?
500
A word that means offer or give. Fill in the blank. How does paragraph 6 ____________________ to the overall structure of the story?