Reading Literary
Reading Informational
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Language
100

The main message or lesson an author want readers to take away from a story.

What is Theme?

100

This is what a piece of writing is mainly about/what happens in a piece of writing.

What is Central Idea

100

This is the first attempt at actual writing and will usually be revised and edited before the final form.

What is a rough draft?

100

An author or speaker will support their argument using this.

What are reasons/evidence?

100

This punctuation usually represents a pause in a sentence or a shift from one idea to another.

What is a comma?

200

The author is the one who writes a story but this person is the one who is telling a story.

What is a narrator?

200

You have to do this (two words) when you want to provide backup for an answer that you give about a text.

What is Cite Evidence?

200

This is a statement that can be challenged/ argued against and needs evidence to support it.

What is a claim?

200

This is a type of text in which an author or speaker will address a crowd verbally for a number of reasons.

What is a speech.

200

This type of sentence normally does not contain a comma or any other type of punctuation even though the sentence may contain multiple ideas much like the very sentence you are reading right now at this moment in time on this very day but it won't have any breaks whatsoever.

What is a run-onsentence

300

This is the word for what happens in a story (hint: there are five parts or elements of this)

What is plot?

300

This two word phrase is used to describe the way a text is set up or organized.

What is text structure?

300

This type of writing tells a story.

What is narrative?

300

This is a type of multimedia presentation which may use text, audio, pictures or a number of different features.

What is Powerpoint?

300

These are words within a text that can help readers find the meaning of unknown words?

What are context clues?

400

This type of narrator usually knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in a story.

What is Third-Person Omniscient?

400

This is the word for the reason an author writes a particular text (three types: inform, entertain, or persuade).

What is author's purpose?

400

This type of writing just teaches readers about something they may not have known.

Informational

400

This type of evidence is true statements that can be proven.

What are facts?

400

Correct the sentence below:

We had a great time at the park running, laughing, and we played a bunch of games.

What is we had a great time at the park running, laughing, and playing a bunch of games?

500

These are (in order) the five elements of plot.

What are exposition (introduction), rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution (conclusion)?

500

This is the way an author feels about a particular subject, idea, or person. It is usually shown in the language the author chooses to use.

What is author's perspective or point of view?

500

This type of writing usually aims to make a specific point or convince readers to take action.

What is argument/persuasive?

500

This type of evidence is normally based on some type of numbers or percentages.

What are statistics?

500

This is a verb that functions as a noun, usually ending in -ing.

What is a gerund.