Grammar
This is what we do to the first letter of a sentence.
What is capitalize?
This is the college I attended.
What is Texas A&M University?
Who won the Battle of the Alamo?
Who is Mexico?
This is the message that the author is trying to send.
What is theme?
This is the writing process that I follow.
What is POW?
This is the "who or what" the sentence is talking about.
What is the subject?
This is my puppy's name.
Who is Penny?
This was Mexico's general.
Who is Santa Anna?
We used this strategy to help us come up with the best summary of a fiction story.
What is SWBST?
This is a type of essay where we are telling a story.
What is a narrative essay?
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have a different meaning.
What is homophone?
This is how many nephews/nieces I have.
What is 4?
This was the first battle of the Texas Revolution.
What is Battle of Gonzales?
The topic of a text, along with what the author wants us to know about it.
What is main idea?
This is what we do to start a new paragraph.
What is indent?
This is how we spell the plural of butterfly.
What is B-U-T-T-E-R-F-L-I-E-S?
This is my favorite color.
What is blue?
This was what the people who were from Mexico but lived in Texas were called.
What are Tejanos?
This is the time, place, weather, or culture of the story.
What is the setting?
This is the very first part of our essay.
What is the hook?
This is what we use to combine two independent clauses.
What is a comma and coordinating conjunction? (FANBOYS)
This is the "sport" that I played in college.
What is Quidditch?
This was one of the Texas Generals.
Who is William B. Travis? (Or David Bowie)
This is what we get when we put our schema with the text evidence.
What is an inference?
This is the strategy that I use to edit my writing.