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Potpourri
100
the sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
100
a fact that describes, explains, or strengthens the main idea of a text.
What is supporting detail?
100
The first paragraph of an essay in which the main idea is presented.
What is an introduction?
100
A word used in place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
100
A word that is used to show ownership.
What is a personal pronoun?
200
the way a narrator tells a story.
What is point of view?
200
text structure gives the reason and outcomes for effects
What is cause-and-effect?
200
an investigation of facts to conduct research
What is research?
200
The use of uppercase letters in writing.
What is capitalization?
200
a first-hand account of a topic of interest or event
What is a primary source?
300
a main message or lesson in a text
What is theme?
300
What are instructions that tell the reader how to make or do something and are numbered.
What are Multi-step instructions?
300
Tells a story in novels, short stories, poems
What is a narrative text ?
300
a word that is a spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning
What is homonym?
300
an incomplete sentence
What is a sentence fragment?
400
an educated guess based on evidence in the text and the reader's prior knowledge
What is an inference?
400
when an author's choice of words is used to create a particular meaning.
What is word choice?
400
the process in which writers review what they have written to be sure it is clear, effective, and well organized
What is revising?
400
a words dictionary meaning
What is denotation?
400
two or more independent clauses without correct punctuation to separate them.
What is a run-on sentence?
500
the way an author chooses to present information
What is text structure?
500
What gives a visual representation of what something looks like.
What is a picture?
500
Something that can be used to help you research a topic.
What is a resource?
500
an incomplete sentence
What is fragment?
500
sharing a finished work with others
What is publishing?