Poetry
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Word Choice
Writing
100

The lesson learned from the poem

What is central message or theme? 

100
The most important thing the author wants you to take away

What is the main idea/central idea?

100

The moral or lesson of the story?

What is theme?

100

a comparison using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

What are the parts of a constructed response? 

What is topic sentence, two pieces of evidence, analysis? 

200

the "paragraph" of a poem

What is a stanza?

200

What is the author's purpose?

What is persuade, inform, entertain, describe?

200

Where are you looking when it asks about how a character or feeling changes or develops? 

What is the beginning and end?

200

giving an object human qualities

What is personification?

200
How many paragraphs are in your essay? 

What is 4 paragraphs? 

300
What does it mean when it asks how a theme or idea is developed? 

What is shown or supported?

300

To try to convince a reader of something

What is persuade?

300

What is the multiple choice checklist? 

What is goal, box out, eliminate?

300

She had a heart of gold 

What is a metaphor?

300

What needs to be included in your introduction? 

What are an answer to the bullets in the prompt? 

400

Annotation Focus of Poetry

What is who, what, gist, tone, mood?

400

What are the text structures? 

Description, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, time sequence?

400

What are the three most important stages of plot?

What is exposition, climax, and resolution?

400

How the author feels about what they're writing

What is tone? 

400

What needs to be in your conclusion? 

What is a conclusion stem and a rewording of the introduction

500

What is gist? 

What is a few words jotting what happened?

500

diagrams, timelines, captions, photographs, graphs, subtitles, headings

What are text features?

500

What is a summary? 

What is a concise retelling of the most important parts of the story

500

How the reader feels about what they're reading

What is mood?

500
What should you do after each paragraph? 

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