The easiest form of writing when you read an informational text and explain the answer to a question you are given using textual evidence
What is informative?
100
Something you should do before reading in order to determine a purpose
What is read the questions first?
100
Being able to tell the main idea of the article or piece of literature
What is determining the central idea?
or
What is central idea?
100
Mrs. Copley is this old.
What is 31?
200
The working together of characters, setting, events, and ideas in a story that develop the plot
What are interactions?
200
This word lets you know you must write an argument
What is claim?
200
20 words that give the who, what, when, where, why, and how of an article or piece of literature
What is gist?
200
This is what you should do when writing to a text in order to show where your evidence defending your thesis statement or claim was found
What is cite?
or
What is cite textual evidence?
or
What is give the paragraph where you found the information?
200
The reasons for text structure and what an article should include according to the author
What is author's purpose?
300
Information given by an author that is not explicitly stated in the text and must be inferred by the reader using clues left by the author
What is implicit information?
OR
What is implicit?
300
A type of writing prompt asking you to inform the reader about how an author uses dialogue, interactions among characters, traits of individual characters, dialogue, or the setting to develop the plot, characterization, theme, or a central idea of a piece of literature
What is literary analysis?
300
An easy way for keeping up with main characters and ideas and important information so you can sum up the entire story in a nutshell
What is the W-I-N, W-I, or tracker strategy?
300
When you find the lesson that the main characters learn or learn a lesson that can be applied to your life
What is determining the theme?
OR
What is theme?
300
Mr. Leeke's son
Who is Owen?
400
To build up the theme, central idea, or plot in a story using interactions among characters, setting, events, and ideas
What is develop?
400
A type of writing that may include many paragraphs, some of them only one sentence, characters and dialogue to tell a story related to the information in the text read
What is narrative?
400
Turn the prompt into a question, answer the question(s), and ask and answer the question(s) for each paragraph in order to create a t-chart and plan for your essay
What is deconstructing the prompt?
400
Each time you have a new speaker in a narrative essay, you should do these two things
What is start a new paragraph and use quotation marks?
400
We read this story that takes place on a different planet where the people from Earth begin to change without noticing it upon moving to Mars
What is "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed?"
500
These two main ideas within a text are often confused for one another, even though they are not the same thing. One is specific to a text and one may be shared among many texts. You may also have more than one of each of these in any given text.
What are central idea and theme?
500
When writing an argument, you must use this as one of your body paragraphs to convince your audience that even though there may be other options, your claim is correct
What is a counterclaim?
500
An essay that includes these three components, plus transitions, will easily score a 5 or 6 on the writing test; there are different names for these three components in an informative/literary analysis/argument and a narrative.
What is introduction, body, and conclusion(informative, lit analysis, argument)?
or
What is beginning, middle, end (narrative)?
500
You do this when you read two different articles on the same subject in order to analyze the differences in the author's perspectives
What is compare and contrast?
500
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