Genres of text
An imaginative genre which tells about future technology and science of the future.
Science Fiction
Part of a longer text.
Excerpt
The reason an author writes a text. PIE
Author's Purpose
What does RACE stand for ?
R-restate
A- answer
C- cite text evidence
E- explain
The message or the lesson conveyed by an author in a a text.
Theme
The story of a peron's life written by someone else.
Biography
The story of a person's life written BY THAT PERSON
Autobiography
What the text is mostly about is called ___________.
main idea
What does RACER -C stand for?
R- Restate
A- Answer
C- Cite evidence
E- explain
R- repeat the reace strategy
What is imagery?
Words used to create a picture in the readers mind.
A text an author writes about an important part of his or her life. The author sharea his or her thoughts and feelings as part of the text.
Memoir
A story written with a fully developed theme, but is shorter than a novel and less elaborate.
Short Story
Occurs when the meaning of the words in the text are different from the literal or actual meaning of the words.
Ex: The leaves danced across the sidewalk.
Figurative language
A type of writing where the author tells a true or made up story.
Narrative
True or false.
Text evidence is the writer's own words and explanation.
False- text evidence is COPIED straight from the text and placed in quotation marks.
A type of text written to inform or educate readers on current events.
News Article
A genre of text that uses lines and stanzas.
Poetry
Occurs when the author uses the same sound to start a series of words in a text.
Ex: The child clapped as the clown finished the courageous stunt.
Alliteration
Informationnal writing. It explains a particular topic or concept clearly.
Explanatory Writing
What is a central message?
The main idea presented in text that is non fiction. It is the same thing as the main idea in fictional text.
Fictional stories based on events of the past, believable characters and settings.
Historical Fiction
A type of text written to inform and educate the reader on current events.
News Article
When the author uses entire words or phrades over and over throughout a text to emphazise words or ideas.
Ex: Everywhere we looked was snow, snow, snow and snow.
Repetition
A type of writing where the author takes a position and explains/supports the position through research and credible sources.
Argumentative Writing
What does CDD stand for?
Claim, detail, detail.
You DO NOT need to include an explanation. You only include your claim (answer) and 2 pieces of text based evidence that support your claim.