vocabulary
What is Antagonist?
A person/force the hero battles.
What is Comprehension?
The act or capability of understanding something.
What is Narrative Writing?
A Narrative is a way of presenting connected events in order to tell a good story.
What is Predicting?
This strategy involves the ability of readers to get meaning from a text by making informed predictions.
What is MLA format?
MLA stands for Modern Language Association. It is a style of formatting academic papers that is used mostly in the arts and humanities. it is a style of formatting written works that is most widely used in publishing.
What is Dramatic Irony?
Irony that's understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.
What is Vocabulary?
Vocabulary development is closely connected to comprehension.
What is Analytical Writing?
Analytical Writing is evaluative and critical. It seeks to go beyond the descriptive presentation of facts or details to the reader, and instead evaluates and investigates their significance.
What is Summarizing?
Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce then to their bare essentials: the key ideas and the main points that are worth noting and remembering.
What is Bibliography?
A list of books referred to in a scholarly work, typically printed as an appendix.
What is Perpetual?
Everlasting; Continual
What is Fluency?
Fluent readers are able to read orally with appropriate speed, accuracy, and proper expression.
What is Argumentative Essay?
It is used to settle disputes and discover truth.
What is Visualizing?
Visualizing for comprehension means to formulate pictures in our minds based on the activities in a story. Creating mental images, as if watching a movie while reading, is important in reading comprehension because the reader is able to glean a deeper understanding of the story that will target long-term memory.
What is Citation?
A citation is the way you tell your readers that your work came from another source and gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again. Citations may include information about the authors or editors.
What is Affectation?
Unnatural behavior; conduct intended to give a false impression.
What is Spelling?
The national reading panel report did not include spelling as one of the essential components of reading.
What is Literary Analysis?
Literary Analysis involves examining all the parts of a novel, play, short story, or poem elements such as a character, setting, tone, and imagery and thinking about how the author uses those elements to create certain effects.
What is Making Inferences?
Making inferences is a comprehension strategy used by proficient readers to "read between the lines" make connections, and draw conclusions about the texts meaning and purpose.
What is Conclusion?
A conclusion is the last part of something, its end or result. The phrase in conclusion means "finally, to sum up," and is used to introduce some final comments at the end of a speech or piece of writing.
What is Feign?
To give a false appearance of; simulate or counterfeit.
What is Phonics?
Phonics is the relationship between the letters in written language and the individual sounds in spoken language.
What is Gothic Romance novel?
A literary genre that emerged as a part of the larger romanticism movement. Dark romanticism is characterized by expressions of terror, gruesome narratives, supernatural elements, and dark picturesque scenery.
Questioning is a reading strategy that is taught to students to help them engage with the text. This means that they read the words with the idea that the meaning of the text will reveal itself if they read enough words.
What is Body Paragraph?
All the paragraphs that come between the intro and conclusion- compromise the bulk of the essay and together from the students primary argument.