Question Queen
With a main idea, you need what to support it.
What are key details?
A text that uses "I" and tells a story is in this genre.
What is a narrative essay?
This punctuation mark comes before the conjunction in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
"Tiny" and "Small" are examples of these.
What are synonyms?
Name a type of text structure in an informational passage.
What is compare/contrast, cause and effect, problem/solution, chronological?
This is the term for a "guess" based on text clues + what you know.
What is Inference?
What is opinion writing?
Fix the verb: "The group of students was/were excited."
What is was?
A word part added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
These words (like However or Finally) act as "glue" between ideas.
What are transitional words?
To "Cite Evidence" usually starts with this 4-word phrase.
What is "According to the text"?
An "Informative" text should never include the author's ________.
What is opinion/feelings?
This type of verb shows an action that was completed in the past (e.g., had walked).
The "root" of the word Uncomfortable is......
What is comfort?
A summary must include the Main Idea and these smaller pieces of info.
Main idea may also be called
What is theme?
This type of writing uses dialogue, setting, characters, and plot.
What is narrative?
Name two relative pronouns.
What are who, whom, whose, which, and that?
"The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of this.
What is personification?
This text structure shows similarities/differences between events or ideas discussed.
What is compare/contrast?
You may use _____ to determine the meaning of a word you don't know.
What are context clues?
"Look at this prompt: Write a response comparing how the pioneers in 'The Arkansas Frontier' and the hikers in 'Modern Trails' solve the problem of finding water. The type of writing should be: Opinion, Informative, or Narrative
What is Informative?
"Identify the structure of this sentence: 'Because the Arkansas River flooded the fields, the farmers had to move their equipment to higher ground.' This sentence is: Simple, Compound, or Complex
What is complex?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings (like there/their).
What are homophones?
This text structure explains why something happened and what the result was.
What is cause and effect?