How a writer chooses words and style to share ideas.
Author's use of language
Author's attitude, serious, funny, angry and etc.
Tone
Make a prediction by using text clues from the text
HINT: Educational guess
Context clues
Infer
Lesson Learned
Theme
Character Motivation
A cause or explanation for a belief or action.
Reason/Reasoning
Short version/main points only
HINT(SWBST)
Summarize
Decide what something means
Conclude
When/Where
Setting
Main statement or claim
Thesis
Using the idea itself as proof
Circular Reasoning
Paraphrase
Add more ideas or details
Develop
Story events
Plot
Reason for writing
(P.I.E)
Author's Purpose
Compare two things
Analogy
Organizational Pattern
Explain why something happens
Reason
Prediction of what would happen in the future
Foreshadow
Big point/main idea
Key idea
Putting ideas side by side to show a major difference.
Juxtapositions
Main point/ central message
Controlling idea
Details
Describes
Past scene
Flashback
Text Evidence