vocabulary
This is another name for a controlling idea.
What is a thesis?
You write a shortened version of the story with the most important parts of the story.
What is a summary?
Before you publish your writing you should always do this step.
What is revise and edit?
I do this when I rewrite information in my own words.
What is paraphrasing?
I look at how authors write to decide this.
What is organization?
This is how the author feels about the writing subject.
What is tone?
Use what you know and what the story says to make these.
What are inferences?
These are figures of speech.
What are personifications, similes, metaphors, hyperbole, alliteration, and idioms?
I do this when I put inferences together.
What is draw a conclusion?
These are not written in paragraph form. They can be written in stanzas and they can tell a story.
What are poems?
This is how you feel as you read.
What is mood?
You do this when the story reminds you of something else.
What is make a connection?
These are text features.
What are table of contents, diagrams, illustrations, captions, glossaries, etc.?
I find this when reading when I decide who is telling the story.
What is point of view?
This is the message of the story.
What is a theme?
This is another name for taking notes to help you as you read.
What is annotation?
You should always back up your answers with this information.
What is evidence?
These are types of text structures.
What are description, sequence, problem/solution, compare/contrast and cause/effect?
I do this to make new meaning or a new product.
What is synthesize?
This is a comparison between two words.
What is an analogy?
You use these to help you figure out a word definition besides using the dictionary.
What are context clues?
You should know these parts of speech.
What are nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and interjections?
Use compare and contrast to show these.
What are similarities and differences?
I do this to look at character's traits when I read.
What is analyze?
These are part of a plot diagram.
What is setting, characters, conflict, rising action, denouement, and falling action?