Structure
The focus of an ENTIRE informative article or essay.
What is the central idea?
Do this BEFORE reading a passage.
What is "read the questions."
This writing strategy helps you answer CRQs.
What is RACES?
The story of one’s life story, written by oneself.
What is an autobiography?
Adjective meaning "difficult."
What is "arduous."
The lesson or universal message in a story.
What is the theme?
The Keystone is timed: true or false?
What is false.
This word beginning with C means to quote evidence from a text.
What is "cite?"
This type of essay structure might include steps, such as a recipe.
What is chronological or sequence?
Another word for the main point or claim of an essay.
What is "thesis?"
True or False: In a story, the theme = plot.
What is false?
What you should do when a question is too challenging.
Highlighting, underlining, and margin notes are examples of this.
What is annotating?
This essay form is meant to convince the reader.
What is persuasive?
This Greek-root word means "the study of life."
What is "biology?"
Theme or central idea: a boy wins a golden ticket to tour a chocolate factory.
What is central idea?
T/F: The multiple choice questions include partially correct answers to trick you.
What is True.
The three reasons an author writes a text; also a delicious dessert.
Persuade, Inform, Entertain (PIE)
"Climate change is a challenge, here's how to fix it" is an example of this structure.
What is problem/solution?
To recover quickly from difficulties
What is "resilience?"
The focus of an individual paragraph.
What is main idea?
Correct MCQ responses are based on this.
What is "evidence" (or "text evidence").
The end of an essay, story, or CRQ response.
What is the conclusion?
The author's purpose in "Red Riding Hood" or "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
What is to entertain?
This Latin-root word lets you see really tiny things.
What is a microscope?