This is when you create mental images in the mind's eye.
What is visualization?
A shortened form of a word (or group of words) that omits certain letters or sounds.
What is a contraction?
This type of writing has a story, characters, conflict, and other essential parts of a story.
What is a Narrative?
A poem where the beginning letters of each line spell out a word or phrase.
What is an Acrostic?
A punctuation symbol that is used to end most sentences.
What is a period?
A guess that you make or an opinion that you form based on clues and the information that you already have.
These words replace nouns.
What are pronouns?
This type of writing tries convince the reader to accept a particular point of view or take a specific action.
What is a Persuasive Essay?
What is a Haiku?
When you express the most important facts or ideas about something in a short and clear form.
What is summarizing?
These words connect the subject to the predicate.
What is a linking verb?
A type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions.
What is Poetry?
A humorous poem that consists of five lines in a single stanza with a rhyme scheme of AABBA.
What is a limerick?
It is a punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral.
What is a comma?
The most important idea in a passage.
What is a main idea?
The words 'a', 'an' and 'the' are all examples of these types of words.
What are articles?
A type of nonfiction writing that conveys information/facts about something.
What is informational text?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in 2 or more words.
What is alliteration?
A punctuation mark used to indicate either possession or the omission of letters or numbers.
What is an apostrophe?
Extracting meaning from what you read.
What is reading comprehension?
There are eight of these in the English language. Each of them indicates how the word functions in meaning as well as grammatically within the sentence.
What are Parts of Speech?
Two or more basic phrases joined together using a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
A way of expressing oneself that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning.
What is Figurative Language?
These are used in writing to show where speech or a quote begins and ends.
What are quotation marks?