To underline details that answer a question or answers a who, what, where, when, why or how question.
What is annotating a text?
100
Name the four different text structures
What is problem and solution,compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequential order
100
the format used to accurately answer a short response question
What is CEJEJ?
100
These words introduce this type of clause. These clauses include words like: when, although, after, before, since, until, when, while, but, etc.
What is a dependent clause?
100
involves a little bit more description of why something is the way it is using specific details and facts.
This key word is...
what is explain?
200
to read each answer of a question and cross out wrong answers
What is elimination?
200
to read a text and determine how the AUTHOR feels
What is tone?
200
to accurately write a extended response, the writer must:
What is to write an introduction, answer all parts of the question and write a conclusion?
200
to express a complete thought
What is independent clause?
200
you need to provide further information to show why something is right or true or evidence supports claim
What is justification?
300
to read a short response question and find the answer in the text to write an accurate response
What is evidence based claim?
300
to draw a conclusion using background knowledge and text evidence
What is an inference?
300
to organize an extended response, a writer must:
What is use bullet points?
300
How is a clause different from phrase?
What is subject and verb for a clause and either a subject or a verb but not both for a phrase?
300
After many hours of pounding rain and forceful winds, the storm finally abated and the slowly sun peaked through the clouds in the midst of light rain.
What is to dwindle, weaken, decrease, wane, die down?
400
to read a question and create an answer before choosing
What is predicting an answer?
400
Name the author's purpose for writing in non-fiction texts
What is to persuade, to entertain or to inform.
400
to replace the author said or she thinks, the writer uses
What is the author's last name?
400
When extra information is added to add more information. Mrs. Gunter, WHO IS MY ENGLISH TEACHER, is the mother of two children.
What is an appositive phrase?
400
Read this excerpt from this poem, "Just yesterday she was small and warm; / today she is a quarreling storm" The poet most likely uses these words to show that the wind,
a) will soon bring rain
b) is having an argument
c) is acting confused and upset
d) has grown strong and fierce
What is d-- has grown strong and fierce?
500
to pay close attention to charts, captions, subsections and titles
What is text features?
500
Pilsen is an old community in Chicago with a long history. This part of Chicago started small and got bigger, as most neighborhoods in the city did. Its cultural history is about moving, changing, and connecting. Many people have moved there over the decades. This movement started when immigrants chose to settle in this part of the city when Chicago was growing rapidly. An immigrant is a person who moves from one country to another. Pilsen’s first people spoke German. They had moved from Germany. If you go to Pilsen today you will see some of the places they built. But when they first moved there, it had just a few homes. Then immigrants continued to migrate there; newcomers moved to Pilsen so they could be near people who came from the same country.
What is Pilsen as a community of immigrants?
500
Words like: for, in, under, without, in, into....
Dan went into the mall
Dan went under the car to check the oil.
What is a preposition or prepositional phrase?
500
Joey was despondent when received a failing grade on his math test after many hours of studying. He did feel confident enough to take a re-test.
What does the term despondent mean in this passage?