Reading
This is the most important point of the passage.
What is the Main Idea?
What is the formula for a complete sentence?
What is Subject + Verb + Complete Thought or Idea = Complete Sentence?
This type of writing involves the writer recounting events in the order that they happened.
What is Narration?
Determining a text's main idea or theme involves drawing _________.
What are conclusions?
This theory describes how the Earth and the Universe were formed.
What is the Big Band Theory?
When I put the author's ideas into my own words, I am ________; when I choose the most important details that explain the main idea of a piece, I am ________.
What is Rephrasing and Summarizing?
Who or what the sentence is about is called the ______ of a sentence.
What is the Subject?
When the author tries to change reader's minds, he or she is trying to _________ the reader.
What is to Persuade?
Everything you read, informative texts and literature, has a ______--what the text is about.
What is a subject?
This is made up of three main layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core.
What is the Earth's Crust?
To ________ ideas or things, find out how they are alike; to _________ ideas or things, find out how they are different.
What is Compare and Contrast?
Finding the word or words that describes what the subject is doing in a sentence gives me the ______.
What is the verb?
When an author seeks to present facts and date to explain a subject or situation, or idea, he or she is writing to _______ the reader.
What is to Inform?
The text's central focus, or the most important point the writer makes about the subject is called _____.
What is the Main Idea?
The day-to-day change in atmospheric conditions at a particular place is called _________.
What is weather?
A ________ is an idea figured out from different pieces of information.
What is a Conclusion?
What do you call a word that describes the noun or pronoun in a sentence?
What is an Adjective?
That sentence within the essay that tells you what the author is writing about is called _______.
What is the Topic Sentence?
Fiction writers express their main idea as a ______.
What is a theme?
The average weather conditions of a large region over a period of time.
What is climate?
A ________ is a broad statement about a group of people, objects, or things, or about a type of event.
What is a Generalization?
These words are used to combine sentences, as well as, dependent and independent clauses. They are call Coordinating Conjunctions but are more commonly known as F.A.N.B.O.Y.S. List each of these words.
What are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So?
When the author states his or her intention in an essay, this is called the _______ statement.
What is the Thesis Statement?
To (who, whom) did you give the message?
What is whom?
_________ and _______ were formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a nebula (The result of protostars forming clouds of condensing gases and dust).
What are the Universe and the Solar System?
One type of figurative language, which implies a comparison between two things is called ______?
What is a Metaphor?
"Although my friend, John, is running for Class President," This is an example of a ________ Clause.
What is a Dependent Clause?
When a writer switches from one idea in a paragraph to another idea in another paragraph, this is called _________.
What is Transition?
Subject + a Verb + a Complete Thought = _______
What is the formula for a complete sentence?
The largest and closest star to Earth?
What is the Sun?
When an author assigns human characteristics to something that is not human, it is called _______?
What is Personification?
" When class is over my friends and I are going out to get some lunch because we are starving and we can't concentrate when we are so hungry can anyone really when the only thing on your mind is what you're going to eat and when"
This is an example of what kind of sentence?
What is a Run-On Sentence?
Words like However, Nevertheless, In addition to, What's more, etc., are examples of _________ Expressions.
What are Transitional Expressions?
The _______ System breaks down food into nutrients that cells can use.
What is the Digestive System?
The universe is filled with trillions of _______; one of which is the Milky Way.
What are Galaxies?
When writers use the words like or as to compare two things, this is called ________.
What are Similies?
These words almost always end in -ly and describe how something is done in a sentence.
What are Adverbs?
What are the three basic components of an essay?
What are the Introduction, the body, and the Conclusion?
The ________ System controls body activities.
What is the Nervous System?
This man came up with the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?