Types of Writing
This acronym stands for a short response that typically requires a claim and evidence from the text.
What is an SCR (Short Constructed Response)?
This type of text is written to give you facts and information about real-world topics.
What is informational text?
Every sentence must begin with this type of letter.
What is a capital letter?
These are words that mean the same or almost the same thing, like "big" and "large."
What are synonyms?
This is a "smart guess" you make by using clues from the story and what you already know.
What is an inference?
This multi-paragraph response requires an introduction, body paragraphs with evidence, and a conclusion.
What is an ECR (Extended Constructed Response)?
This genre of writing often uses rhythm, rhyme, or stanzas to express feelings or ideas.
What is poetry?
This is the punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence that asks a question.
What is a question mark?
These are words that have opposite meanings, like "hot" and "cold."
What are antonyms?
When you tell the most important part of a story in your own words, including the beginning, middle, and end.
What is a summary?
This is an essential first step in both ECR's and SCR's where you restate and answer the prompt.
What is making a claim.
This text feature is found at the top of a page or section and tells the reader what they will be reading about.
What is a heading or title?
In an ECR (Extended Constructed Response), this is the first sentence where you restate the prompt and give your answer.
What is a claim (or central idea)?
When you find an unfamiliar word, you look at the words around it to figure out the meaning. These are called...
What are context clues?
This is the reason an author writes a text, often remembered by the acronym P.I.E.
What is Author's Purpose?
The main goal of an argumentative text is to do this to the reader.
What is persuade or convince?
This feature is a drawing or photo that has labels pointing to its different parts.
What is a diagram?
These are words used to connect ideas, such as "because," "therefore," or "finally."
What are transition words?
This part of a word is added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning, like "un-" in "unhappy."
What is a prefix?
These are the people, animals, or creatures that a story is about.
What are characters?
An argumentative text is different from an opinion text because it needs to have these, rather than feelings/opinions.
What are facts and evidence?
This is a short explanation found under a picture or illustration that tells more about it.
What is caption?
This is the part of the writing process where you check for mistakes in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
What is editing?
These are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings, like "there," "their," "they're."
What are homophones?
This is the lesson or message the author wants the reader to learn from a story.
What is the theme?