Reading Literature
This is a conclusion drawn from sound reasoning based on textual or contextual evidence
What is an inference?
This is a hint in the text at the meaning of an unknown word.
What is a context clue?
These are the 3 components of an essay.
What are the intro, body, and conclusion?
This is a two-way street involving the giving and receiving of messages.
What is communication?
A person, place, thing, topic, or creature is this.
What is a noun?
Hyperbole, metaphors, and similes are all examples of this type of language that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
This is the part of a text that is "eye-catching" and contains visual information.
What is a text feature?
This is the part of the intro that is meant to capture the reader's interest.
What is the Attention Getter?
What is feedback?
This only describes or modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
"Old Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a hyperbole?
This is the way the text is organized or the way the information is presented.
What is text structure?
These are the 3 parts of a body paragraph.
What are the topic sentence, chunks, and concluding statement?
This is the model that active listeners follow.
What is the HEAR model?
This may be transitive or intransitive.
What is a verb?
This is the moral of a story or a bit of wisdom that a story reveals stated in one complete sentence.
What is the theme?
Name 2 text features
pictures, graphs, bold terms, bullet points, callouts
This contains a transition, review of key points, restatement of the thesis, and a clinching closer.
What is the conclusion?
This is the purpose of communication.
What is "to exchange ideas"?
This shows position in relation to a noun.
What is a preposition?
This is a short general statement that tells the gist of a story or text.
What is a summary?
What is compare and contrast?
This is states the subject of the essay, your opinion on that subject, and previews the topics in order of appearance. It is also the guiding statement of the entire essay.
What is the thesis statement?
These are things active listener do.
What are sit up, make eye contact, nod...?
The punctuation missing from this sentence:
She enjoyed reading these stories "The Things They Carried" "Yesterday was Beautiful" and "Through the Tunnel".
What are a colon and commas?
She enjoyed reading these stories: "The Things They Carried", "Yesterday Was Beautiful", and "Through the Tunnel"