Reading
The theme of a story.
What is a moral or life lesson?
A statement/sentence giving an overview of the entire essay.
What is a thesis statement?
A word that modifies a noun, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
The first step of the RACE strategy.
What is to restate the question?
A book used to find synonyms and antonyms of a word.
What is a thesaurus?
A guess based on what you already know.
What is an inference?
Claim, Reasons/evidence, Conclusion
What is argument writing structure?
A word that shows relationship.
What is a preposition?
The second step of the RACE strategy.
What is to answer the question?
Language that has to do with the 5 senses.
What is sensory language?
Anything not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
A story about someone's life that is written by someone else.
What is a biography?
Personal pronoun performing the action of the sentence (He threw the ball to me.)
What is a Subjective Pronoun?
To find evidence from the text to support your answer.
What is to cite evidence?
What is an antecedent?
The way that an author feels as he is writing.
What is tone?
Sums up the essay/gives closure on the topic.
What is a concluding statement?
When words are repeated.
What is redundancy?
The final step of the RACE strategy.
What is to explain your answer?
A word, phrase, or dependent clause that adds information to the sentence but it isn’t a required piece of the sentence for it to makes sense.
What is a nonrestrictive element?
What is implicitly?
"Can't do's" in formal style writing.
What is avoid slang and using 1st/2nd person pronouns?
A pronoun used to add emphasis (self/selves).
What is an intensive pronoun?
The length of a RACE strategy response.
What is 3-5 sentences?
A short story about an event that really happened.
What is an anecdote?