Open-Ended Questions
Text Organization
Literary Elements
Reading Strategies
All About Words
100
The first sentence of your response that responds directly to the prompt.
What is the Topic Sentence?
100
What is it called when an author presents a dilemma and also suggests a way to solve it?
Problem - Solution
100
The means an author uses to develop the personality of a character (appearance, speech, thoughts, actions, thoughts/feelings of others)
Characterization
100
Quickly looking over the title, headings, illustrations, and captions of a text before you start to read.
Previewing
100
A letter or group of letters that comes at the beginning of a word and changes the word’s meaning.
Prefix
200
Usually you need to find two or three of these from the passage to support your answer.
What are examples or reasons?
200
What is it called when the author explains why something happened and explains the results of that action?
Cause - Effect
200
The time and place in which the story occurs.
Setting
200
Making a guess about what might happen next based on clues from the text.
Predicting
200
A letter or group of letters that comes at the end of a word and changes the word’s meaning.
Suffix
300
The number of sentences required to get a '3' on an open-ended response.
Trick Question! What is... 'enough to fully answer the question.'
300
The author presents events in the order in which they happened. ( time order) First…… Next….. Last…..
Sequence...Chronological Order
300
The underlying meaning or message of the text.
Theme
300
Deciding what the writer wanted to achieve: To teach or inform, To convince the audience about something, To amuse or entertain
Determining Author's Purpose
300
A word or part of a word from which other words are formed.
Root Word
400
What you should do before reading the passage and why.
Preview the question or prompt, highlight what it is asking you, and keep this information in mind as you read the passage.
400
The author asks a series of questions and gives a response for each.
Question & Answer
400
The general atmosphere or prevailing emotion of a text.
Mood
400
Making reasonable conclusions based on available facts and clues.
Inferencing
400
A word that has more than one meaning. You must pay close attention to the context in which the word is used. Example: saw, fall, bark, slip, lean
Multiple Meaning Words
500
A strong topic sentence for the following prompt... Describe the mood created by the setting of both poems.
What is... "The mood created by the setting in both poems is..."
500
The author tells how two things are alike and how they are different.
Compare - Contrast
500
An author’s attitude toward the subject matter and audience.
Tone
500
Figuring out the meaning of a word by looking at the way it is used in the sentence (e.g., examining the words around it).
Using Context Clues
500
A letter or group of letters that comes at the beginning or the end of a word.
Affix
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