Narrative
Informational/ Research
Opinion/Argument
Fantasy
Conventions
100
This means "story"
What is "narrative"?
100
This gets the reading interested in the topic and introduces the subtopics being discussed later.
What is the lead or introduction?
100
This is in the introduction and lets the reader know what your opinion is.
What is a claim or thesis?
100
Fantasy stories always have these.
What is the hero/heroine and the villain?
100
These are at the beginning of new sentences and proper nouns.
What is a capital letter?
200
This tells what's happening and where, and may give clues to what will become a problem for the main character.
What is the beginning or lead?
200
This restates the main points and offers a final thought or question for the reader to consider.
What is ending or conclusion?
200
These are used to connect reasons and evidence.
What are transition words?
200
This is the difference between fantasy and science fiction.
What is science fiction could happen and fantasy cannot.
200
These go around dialogue in a story.
What is quotation marks?
300
This is connected to the main events in the story and gives the reader a sense of closure.
What is the ending or conclusion?
300
These include heading, text boxes, the index and glossary, among other things.
What are text features?
300
This connects the opinion and the reasons and sums up what the text is mainly about.
What is ending or conclusion?
300
These separate different parts of the story/text or show when a new character is speaking.
What is a paragraph?
400
This shows conversations between characters.
What is dialogue?
400
This is the purpose of informational writing.
What is to inform or to teach?
400
This is the argument someone with a different opinion would have and how it is disproved in a text.
What is a counterargument?
400
This is when and where the story takes place
What is the setting?
400
You do this at the beginning of each new paragraph.
What is indent the first word?
500
All narratives follow this.
What is a story arc?
500
This is what it is called if I don't site my sources and give credit to the book or website where I got my information.
What is plagiarism?
500
This is what gives an opinion validity.
What is evidence?
500
This is the difference between science fiction and fantasy.
What is science fiction could happen and fantasy cannot.
500
These are resources I can use to spell words correctly.
What is a friend, the teacher, or a dictionary?
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