Oh Good Grammar!
The type of letter at the beginning of sentences and proper nouns.
What are capital letters?
What is an ECR?
What poems are made of. Usually numbered in groups of 5.
What are lines?
The genre of text that is made-up or fake.
What is fiction?
The genre of text that gives facts and information about real topics or people.
What is nonfiction?
The two parts every complete sentence must have.
What are subject and predicate?
Important words from the prompt, the answer to the prompt, and written in a complete sentence.
What are things a claim statement should include?
A group of lines separated by line breaks. Often referred to as the paragraph of a poem.
What is a stanza?
The 5-6 things all stories have.
What are story elements?
The subgenre of nonfiction that gives facts and information about a person.
What is a biography?
The punctuation used only in contractions and to show ownership.
What are apostrophes?
Words or phrases straight from the text that support your answer to a prompt.
What is text evidence?
The type of language poets use to help their readers understand what mean in a creative way.
What is figurative language?
What you draw on scratch paper to track story elements as you read.
What is a plot mountain/story arc?
The subgenre of nonfiction that gives facts and information about a topic.
What is expository?
The type of words used to combine sentences, subjects, or predicates that usually follow a comma.
What are conjunctions? (FANBOYS)
Words or phrases used throughout an essay to help it flow.
What are transitions?
Comparing two things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The lesson the characters learn at the end of a story. Also know as the message.
What is theme?
The note-taking strategy to draw when reading nonfiction texts.
What is boxes and bullets?
The punctuation that is used to show when someone is speaking.
What are quotation marks?
A sentence or 2 that restates the central idea and "wraps up" your essay.
What is a conclusion?
Comparing two things by saying one thing IS the other thing.
What is a metaphor?
Another word for the problem in a story?
What is conflict?
The details in nonfiction that you can see when scanning the passage. Examples include: photographs, captions, subtitles, diagrams, maps, bold words, etc.)
What are text features?
The two words at the top of a dictionary page.
What are guide words?
Your explanation of how the text evidence you chose connects to the central idea.
What is reasoning?
The "person talking" in a poem.
Who is the speaker?
How the conflict or problem in a story is resolved or solved.
What is solution?
The way an author organizes information. (Examples include: compare & contrast, problem & solution, cause & effect, etc.)
What is text structure?