Strategically Speaking
This title is often a clue to this.
What is the central idea of a text?
Capitalize proper ones of these, or the names of people and places. Ex. Ryan goes to North Bay Haven.
What are nouns?
Get this the night before the exam.
What is a good night's rest?
"Like Dracula's haunted victims" is a ____________________.
What is simile?
The exposition is the description or explanation of __________ information within a work of literature. It is usually at the beginning of the story. It can cover character relationships, setting, and historical context.
What is background?
Do ____use a colon before a list of items that immediately follows a verb or a preposition.
What is "not"?
These are usually presented with number subscripts and give you extra information about a reading selection.
What are footnotes?
Subject-Verb Agreement: Anybody in your group of friends is/are welcome to come to the party.
What is "is"?
Your Chromebook needs you to do this the night before your exam.
What is charge it?
"Like Dracula's haunted victims" contains an ______________ to a famous literary character.
What is allusion?
If the plot is not in chronological order, and has flashbacks and/or or flashforwards, then it is this kind of plot structure.
What is nonlinear?
Use this to join two closely-related complete thoughts (independent clauses).
What is a semi-colon?
This information, when provided, may give you the context of reading selection before you read it.
What is background information?
Read this sentence: I went to Cafe Nola in Defuniak Springs on Friday night.
Cafe Nola is capitalized because it is this.
What is a proper noun?
or
What is the name of a place?
Come to class well-rested, relaxed, and ready to _______ the day of the exam.
What is read?
"I walked the street that was empty of humans, the shattered headlights of the ruined cars parked along the curb staring at me..."
This sentence contains an example of ____________.
What is personification?
Linear plot structures usually help build this because the reader has to wait to find out what happens/how the conflict is resolved.
What is suspense?
This is "a punctuation mark mostly used to direct the reader’s attention to what follows it. [It] can introduce a list of items, a quotation, or an explanation" (Savvas).
What is a colon?
Making connections to the text, journaling while reading, and discussing the text with a friend are all strategies for doing this.
What is active reading?
True/false: This sentence uses correct capitalization:
I am from the North, but I like Southern cuisine, and I drive east toward work in the morning.
What is true?
Put away anything that might_______ you during the exam.
What is distract?
"The numerous parks managed by the National Park Service are beautiful and diverse many harbor unsuspected dangers and hazards."
The above sentence is incorrect becuase it is a ________________.
What is a run-on?
"Lickety-split" is an informal word choice, which might be part of a casual conversation. This literary term refers to an author's word choices.
What is diction?
Read this sentence: My husband and I like pizza; consequently, we order pizza about once a week.
Is the sentence punctuated correctly?
What is "yes"?
In addition to helping you remember what you read and helping you identify important details, the main purpose of active reading is to help you monitor and repair this.
What is your comprehension or understanding of the text?
Katrina loves to lift weights, sketch portraits, and help people. This sentence demonstrates __________.
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
Sometimes it helps to write a one-sentence ________ of each paragraph in the margins of the reading selection.
What is summary?
These are the three ways to correct a run-on.
What are using a comma and a conjunction, using a semi-colon, and placing a period and a capital letter in the right place?
Italics may be used to show a character's _______monologue, or his or her thoughts, a conversation within the character's mind.
What is internal?
Sherri's rabbit eats: carrots, lettuce, and celery.
Is the sentence grammatically correct?
What is "no"?