Writing
One element of an informative essay.
Introduces a topic, uses relevant fact/details, conclusion that restates your topic in a different way.
How do you spell the homophone of "way".
weigh
What is one characteristic of a non-fiction book?
Teaches you, facts, photos, gives info., main ideas, read to learn, based on true info., purpose is to inform
What is a long vowel?
A vowel that says its name.
What are Miss Wood's two favorite singers?
What is are 3 purposes that an author writes something?
To inform, to persuade, to entertain
True of false: "yeilded" is spelt correctly
false
True of false: illustrations are an element of a fiction text.
True
What is an example of a conjunction?
and, but, so, because...
What is Miss Wood's dog named?
Ivy
What are 2 elements of an opinion essay?
Clearly stated opinion, reasons, evidence to back up reasons, conclusion that restates the opinion.
What letters are missing? Temp___ture.
e, r, a
What are the 3 steps to finding the central/main idea of a text?
Look, read and annotate, ask yourself
What is the past-perfect tense?
had + the past tense of a verb
Eyes on the person talking, not fidgeting, body facing that person, not whispering with someone else
True of False: All sentences should be long and include conjunctions for a solid essay.
False: Sentences should vary in length.
False: desert was.
What is a summary?
A shortened version of what the text was mainly about.
Taylor Swift writes all of her songs. Taylor Swift writes songs for other artists.
Put these sentences together correctly.
Taylor Swift writes all of her songs, and writes songs for other artists.
What is the first thing you should get out each day at the beginning of class?
Agenda.
What kind of essay was the corn essay?
Informative essay
What suffix belongs at the end of the spelling word "reason"...
able
What are the 3 types of text connections?
text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world
What are 2 examples of words that show a cause/effect relationship?
since, because, as a result, if...then..., so..
What kind of dog is Ivy?
Mini-bernedoodle