Informational Text
A synonym for informational text.
What is nonfiction text?
A synonym for literary text.
What is Fiction text?
This is used to determine an unknown word or phrase in a sentence.
What are Context Clues?
The number of paragraphs in essay.
What are five paragraphs?
I, Me, Us, We
What are pronouns used when writing in first-person point-of-view?
What is textual evidence?
What is characterization? or What is character traits?
What is a prefix?
A statement used in writing, usually at the end of each paragraph, used to state your opinion, interpretation, insight, analysis, personal reaction, evaluation or reflection about a concrete detail in an essay.
What is commentary?
When using dialogue because two people in a story are talking, this is done every time a new person speaks.
What is starting a new paragraph?
What is going back and finding the answer in the text?
The words the author uses to help the reader understand the smells in the story, the way something feels, or the color of something.
What is sensory language?
In some words, this part of the word, combined with seeing how it is used in the sentence will help you understand the part of speech.
What is a suffix?
What are transition words?
In dialogue, when someone begins to speak....
What is open quotation marks and a capital letter?
The piece of writing you do after you look for at least two similarities and two differences among all of the articles you have read.
What is a compare/contrast essay?
What is a metaphor? a simile? a hyperbole? an onomatopoeia? personification? an idiom? imagery?
If you know this part, the main part, of the word, it helps you understand the meaning of MANY words that also have this word part.
What is the root word?
These are the three main parts of a narrative writing.
What is incident, response, reflection?
In dialogue, when someone has finished speaking and the sentence has ended.
What is the final punctuation mark then close quotation marks?
You write this when you are trying to convince someone to believe your claim or see your point-of-view in a particular situation or topic.
What is an argumentative essay?
This is used to grab the readers attention at the beginning of your story or essay; there are FOUR.
What is a hook?
What is AQQS? Ancedote, Question, Quote, Statement of Intrigue.
This sentence is at the beginning of your essay and it expresses the main idea of your essay.
What is a thesis statement?
The format used in writing that tells your point, explains it, proves it, analyzes and ends with a final comment about your point.
What is MEPAC?
What is sentence variety?