Fiction
This is the time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author gives information about a negative situation and explains one or more ways to fix it.
What is Problem & Solution?
This is the writing task that requires you to continue/write an original story based on one fictional story.
What is the Narrative?
These are the words that help you connect your ideas together and show how they're related.
In an essay: For example, Additionally, Similarly, Furthermore.
In a story: First, Next, Then, Later, Meanwhile.
What are transitions?
This is the testing tool that you can use to mark important information in the text as you are reading.
What is the highlighter?
This is the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.
Types: Character vs. Self, Character vs. Character, Character vs. Nature
What is the conflict?
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author discusses similarities and differences between people, things, concepts, or ideas.
What is Compare & Contrast?
This is the writing task that requires you to write an essay based on two fictional passages.
What is the Literary Analysis?
These are two graphic organizers you can use to help plan and organize your ideas before writing.
What are box & bullets and a t-chart?
For a story, a timeline of events could work.
These are the definitions for (1) synonym and (2) antonym.
What are (1) synonyms - words that mean the same and (2) antonyms - words that mean the opposite?
This is the kind of character that changes from beginning to end.
What is a dynamic character?
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author provides readers with events in time order or a list of steps in a procedure.
What is Chronological Sequence?
This is the writing task that requires you to write an essay based on three nonfiction sources.
What is the Research Simulation?
This is what we call quotes copied word-for-word and details directly from the text used to support an idea or claim.
What is text evidence?
This is the testing tool that I can use to cross off answers that I know are incorrect.
What is answer eliminator?
This is the phrase used to describe the perspective from which the narrator tells the story.
Bonus: Name the two main kinds of narrators.
What is point of view?
First and Third Person
These are the main author's purposes. (Hint: PIE)
What are (1) Persuade (2) Inform (3) Entertain?
This sentence states the main point (central claim) of the entire essay.
It should use keywords from the prompt and answer the question.
It's the last sentence of an introduction.
What is the thesis statement?
This is the "chunk" of indented writing that helps separate a piece into different sections.
In an essay, it must be 6-8 sentences; in a story, there are no rules for length.
What is a paragraph?
This is the first thing that you should do before reading the passage(s) each day of testing.
What is preview the writing prompt question (task text box?
This is the central idea, lesson, or message a story reveals about life.
What is the theme?
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author describes reasons why something happens or the results of something.
What is Cause & Effect?
This is the only writing task that does not require a thesis statement.
What is the Narrative?
This is the type of figurative language that compares two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
This is what you can do on scrap paper while reading or before writing.
What is take notes or make a plan?