SMART Goals
What does each letter represent for SMART Goals?
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time‑Bound
This type of noun refers to a person, place, or thing and includes words like girl, city, and toys.
What is a common noun?
This type of noun shows ownership, such as in the phrase “Jane’s car.”
What is a possessive noun?
This is the contraction formed from the words do not.
What is don’t?
This part of an essay grabs the reader’s attention, introduces the topic, and includes the thesis statement.
What is the introduction?
Reading 20 minutes of daily is recommended to improve reading accuracy and fluency to 70 words per minute with 95% accuracy.
What are study strategies?
These nouns are always capitalized because they name specific people, places, or things—such as Rachel, Canada, and Mr. Thompson.
What are proper nouns?
According to the video, for names like Chris or James, write their names showing possession.
Chris's and James's
or
Chris' and James'
This subject‑verb pair becomes I am when contracted.
What is “I'm”?
This single sentence clearly states the main argument or focus of the essay.
What is a thesis statement?
To improve sleep, the video suggests turning this off one hour before bedtime.
What is a cell phone?
In the sentence “My favorite country is Canada,” this word is the proper noun.
What is Canada?
In the sentence “Mom and Dad’s car is new,” this part of the rule explains why only one noun takes the apostrophe‑s.
What is shared possession?
In “Mom’s coming to my house,” the word Mom’s is a contraction meaning this.
What is “Mom is”?
These components of an essay each focus on one main idea and include evidence, examples, and explanations.
What are body paragraphs?
This part of a SMART goal ensures you know exactly who, what, when, where, and why—leaving no wiggle room.
What is “Specific”?
This grammatical rule explains why the word dogs is capitalized in the sentence “Dogs are my favorite animal,” even though it is a common noun.
What is the rule that the first word in every sentence must be capitalized?
For hyphenated nouns like father‑in‑law, this part of the compound receives the apostrophe‑s to show possession.
What is the final word of the compound noun?
This common negative contraction does not follow regular spelling patterns; it comes from will not.
What is won’t?
This final part of the essay restates the thesis and summarizes the key points without introducing new information.
What is the conclusion?
According to the video, students who do this are more motivated to learn and achieve better educational outcomes.
What is setting goals?
In the sentence “I have an Instagram account, but i don’t use Facebook,” what is the grammatical error.
What is "I" needs to always be capitalized.
In the phrase “the sisters’ bedroom,” this interpretation is correct because the apostrophe is placed after the S.
What is two or more sisters share one bedroom?
This contraction represents I have when used before a past participle, such as in “___ been to Paris.”
What is I’ve?
Writers do this step to improve clarity, grammar, organization, and overall quality before submitting an essay.
What is revising or editing?