Definitions
Adding small notes to the side of the page while reading a text.
Prior to reading, you observe text features like titles, headings, charts, etc.
What is previewing the text?
The three main types of writing.
What is narrative, explanatory, and argumentative?
Writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is non-fiction?
The turning point of the story where the conflict is confronted.
What is the climax?
The author's opinion/position/stance on a topic.
What is a claim?
What is real world connections?
The first sentence of a body paragraph in an explanatory essay.
What is a topic sentence?
To persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is author's purpose?
Events that build the suspense of the conflict.
What is rising actions?
The feeling created for the reader.
What is mood?
Creating images in your mind while reading a text.
What is visualize?
Giving the source (author) credit for the evidence.
What is citations?
Examples of this are articles, biographies, brochures, science books.
What are informational texts?
The events that occur after the conflict is confronted leading to the end of the story.
What is falling actions?
The author's feeling toward a topic.
What is tone?
Trying to figure out unknown words by using context clues, connotation, and prefixes/suffixes.
What is vocabulary?
Quoting exact words from a text to support your topic/reason.
What is evidence?
What is strong evidence?
The end of the story.
What is the resolution?
Notes or definitions that are placed at the end of a page and used to reference parts of the text (generally using superscript numbers).
What are footnotes?
What is summarizing?
The final sentence in an argumentative essay.
What is a call to action?
The tallest tree in the United States that grows along the southern coast of Oregon to San Francisco, California.
What is the red wood?
The beginning of a story which explains the setting, background, characters, and conflict.
What is the exposition?