TWR
What does the T.S. stand for on our SPO?
What is a topic sentence.
This strategy helps you eliminate answer choices that are clearly wrong to improve your chances of picking the correct one.
What is the process of elimination?
This is the writer’s main opinion or position that they are trying to prove in an argumentative essay.
What is a claim?
A complete sentence has these two parts.
What is a subject and a predicate
In an informative essay, this part introduces the topic clearly and prepares the reader for what they will learn.
What is an introduction?
In TWR, students improve their writing by taking a short sentence and adding more detail using this technique.
What is sentence expansion?
This strategy means you should go back into the passage to find proof before choosing your answer.
What is text evidence?
Facts, examples, or details from a text that support the writer’s reasons are called this.
What is evidence?
All complete sentences must have this at the end.
What is punctuation?
In TWR paragraph writing, this sentence states the main point of the paragraph and connects back to the topic.
What is the topic sentence?
In TWR, students often revise sentences by combining two shorter sentences into one stronger sentence using this writing skill.
What is sentence combining?
This test-taking habit helps you avoid mistakes by making sure you understand exactly what the question is asking.
What is rereading the question?
What is the first paragraph of an argumentative essay?
What is the introduction?
This part of a sentence tells who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
This TWR strategy helps students turn simple sentences into stronger ones by adding details like when, where, why, or how.
What is sentence expansion?
In TWR, this planning strategy helps students build stronger paragraphs by organizing a Main idea, evidence, and an Explanation before writing.
What is an MPO?
If you’re stuck, this strategy says to skip the question and come back later so you don’t waste too much time.
What is the last paragraph of an argumentative essay?
What is conclusion?
This part of a sentence tells what the subject is doing or what is happening.
What is the predicate?
Can you have opinions in an Informational essay?
What is no?
Draw an SPO on your whiteboard.
T.S.
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C.S.
This strategy involves writing quick notes, circling key words, or underlining important information while reading. (Hint: We do this on amplify for new passages)
What is annotating the text?
Words like therefore, however, and for example are used in argumentative essays to do this between ideas.
What are transition words?
A sentence mistake that happens when two complete sentences are incorrectly joined without punctuation is called this.
What is a run-on sentence?
Name all the paragraphs of an Informational essay.
What is Introduction, Body paragraphs, and Conclusion?