When the person telling the story is the main character.
What is First Person?
To tell a story that you would enjoy and makes you laugh.
What is Entertain?
To convince others to feel a particular way about a topic.
What is Persuade?
Statements that cannot be proven true.
What is Opinions?
A visual aid that condenses information into a series of rows, lines, or other shortened lists.
What is Charts, Tables, and Graphs?
The narrator is talking to "you"
What is Second Person?
The clear and easy expression of ideas, either written or spoken.
What is Fluency?
The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters. Ex: serious or humorous.
What is Tone?
A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships.
Ex: Venn diagram, web, flow chart, story map
What is Graphic Organizer?
A judgment based on reasoning rather than something stated directly in the passage. “Reading between the lines”.
What is Inference?
Point of view in which the narrator is not a character in the story. Pronoun them, they
What is Third Person?
The center of interest or attention.
What is Focus?
The fluency, rhythm and liveliness in writing that make it unique to the writer. Your written personality the “style” you write with (friendly, formal, every day, short/long sentences).
What is Voice?
Photographs, drawings, maps, or other pictures that give additional information about the text.
What is Graphics?
To examine and judge carefully.
What is Evaluate?
The vantage point in which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
To give information about a particular topic; to explain why something is important.
What is Inform?
Text that is next to photo or graphic.
What is Caption?
The title at the start of a page or section, usually bold or dark print.
What is Heading?
To restate the most important information in a text.
What is Summarize?
The author’s purpose for writing (facts) argumentative, (emotions) persuade, (information) inform, or (enjoyment) entertain).
What is Author's Purpose?
How the author writes; an author’s use of language; its effects and appropriateness to the author’s intent and theme.
What is Style?
Statements that can be proven true.
What is Facts?
A secondary heading, the mini-topic related to the heading.
What is Subheading?
To restate a text or passage in other words, often to show understanding or clarify the meaning.
What is Paraphrase?