Writer's Block
Who, what, when, where, why, how?
What questions should one ask before reading?
Words that have similar meanings.
What are synonyms?
The important idea in a paragraph or longer text.
What is the main idea?
The organization of ideas and information.
What is text structure?
It means against
What is anti-?
Visualize and look for descriptors.
What should one do while reading?
Words that have an opposite meaning?
What are antonyms?
When you summarize a paragraph you tell about these two things.
What are the main idea and key supporting details?
How one idea or event leads to another idea or event.
What is cause and effect?
It comes at the beginning of a root word
What is a prefix?
A direct comparison without the use of like or as
What is a metaphor?
Statements that give a word's meaning
What are definitions?
More specific information about a topic.
What are details?
Shows how ideas, events, things, or people are similar and different.
What is compare and contrast?
Front of
What is fore?
"I spoke French at the border. I spoke French when I check in. I spoke French whenI went to get to lunch." So spoke the author in A Quick Note on Getting Better at Difficult Things.
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Clues before, after, or within the sentence
What are inferences?
Examples, facts, opinions, and statistics to name a few.
What are types of supporting details?
Presents a problem and tells how it has been or could be solved.
What is problem-and-solution text structure?
It means under
What is sub-?
Owned a Memphis newspaper in which she called for Afro-Americans to emigrate west.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
Word parts that help identify a word's meaning
What are roots, suffixes, and prefixes?
The ability to speak or write a foreign language easily and accurately.
What is fluency?
Organizes information in time order, or the order in which the events occurred.
What is chronological text structure?
Half way to the last game.
What is semifinal?