NONFICTION
What the text is mostly about.
What is the main idea of a text?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
To improve ideas and organization.
What does it mean to revise?
The sentence that tells the main idea of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
They explain or prove the main idea.
What is a supporting detail?
The main problem in the story.
What is conflict?
An action or state of being.
What is a verb?
To fix grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
What does it mean to edit?
An interesting opening that grabs the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
How a text is organized.
What is text structure?
The lesson or message of the story.
What is the theme?
A sentence with a subject and predicate that expresses a complete tought.
What is a complete sentence?
A word with the letters arranged in the right order.
What is spelling?
The ending that wraps up the writing.
What is a conclusion?
To inform or explain.
What is the author's purpose in an informational text?
The perspective the story is told from.
What is point of view?
Two or more sentences incorrectly join.
What is a run-on sentence?
A word that connects ideas (first, last, next)
What is a transition word?
The way ideas are arranged clearly.
What is organization in writing?
A conclusion based on evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
How the author shows what a character is like.
What is characterization?
An incomplete sentence.
What is fragment?
The way a sentence is formed.
What is sentence structure?
Facts, examples, or quotes that support ideas.
What is evidence in writing?