Reading
Making an educated guess about a text
What is an inference
This type of writing is meant to teach your audience on particular topics.
What is the informational writing?
A comparison of two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
(Polite) _____ you tell me what time it is, please?
a. Could
b. Can
c. Will
c. Will
The main point the author is trying to make in an informational text?
What is central idea?
A word opposite in meaning to another
What is an antonym?
This type of writing is meant to convince your audience to see things from your perspective. Speeches, ads and commercials fall under this category
What is persuasive writing
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
When should you include a period in your writing?
When the thought, or idea is complete. At the end of a sentence.
The sequence of events that build up the conflict, leading to the climax of a story.
What is the rising action?
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view
This type of writing can be fiction or non-fiction, but is usually written as a story that is told from in 1st person or 3rd person with characters, setting, plot
What is narrative writing?
Her mind was a library filled with stories, facts, and mysteries waiting to be discovered.
What is a metaphor?
Choose the correct form of the verb be: "We _______ about to have dinner."
a. to be
b. are
c. is
What is "b.are"
I use the RACE strategy with one pice of evidence.
What is SCR?
This is the main message the author wants to convey in his/her story. This is the moral is the lesson that the writer wants you to learn from the story.
What is a theme?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To mean exactly what is written.
What is Literal Lanaguage?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
I use it to analyze informational text.
What is a #?
the sequence of interconnected events that make up a narrative, explaining what happens and why, and driving the story forward with conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
What is a plot?
This type of writing uses figurative language. Is usually short in length and includes techniques such as repetition.
What is a poetry
descriptive words and phrases that engage a reader's five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch) to create a vivid and immersive reading experience.
What is sensory details?
It's an action word.
what is a verb?
to reproduce someone else's words verbatim in your own writing, acknowledging the original source by using quotation marks and providing a citation
What is to quote a text?