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POV
Reading Skills
Note-taking
Vocabulary
Writing Process
100
Point of View
What is the narrator's perspective or way of looking at things?
100
previewing
What is the habit of looking at the book's cover, title, pictures before I begin reading?
100
A note taking chart with questions or topics on the left, answers or notes on the right, and a summary on the bottom.
What is a "T-Chart"?
100
a figure of speech that uses like or as to compare
What is a "simile"?
100
concept web, outline, brainstorming list, free-write, thinking map
What is pre-writing?
200
I, me, my or we, our, ours
What are some key words for first person point of view?
200
predicting
What is the skill of using events in the story to make a thoughtful guess about what will happen next?
200
Two or three interlocking circles used to analyze similarities and differences
What is a "venn diagram"?
200
a pattern of rhyming consonate sounds
What is "alliteration"?
200
writing to get your ideas on paper without concern about spelling and punctuation
What is a rough or first draft?
300
you, yours
What are some key words for second person point of view?
300
skimming and scanning
What is reading quickly looking for key words that provide important information and/or answer questions?
300
An organizer that presents a series of events in the order in which they ocurred
What is a "time line" or a "chain of events chart"?
300
comparisons of similar aspects of two different things
What are "analogies"?
300
improving your writing by moving paragraphs around and changing word choice to make your writing more vivid or powerful
What is revising?
400
he, she, it, his, hers, its
What are key words for third person point of view?
400
re-reading
What is reading a section of the story or article again to increase your understanding?
400
An organizer that defines, describes, and identifies relationships to a word or concept.
What is "word map" or "concept map" ? (also "web")
400
a word that stands alone before we add a prefix and/or suffix to it
What is a "base word" (or root word)?
400
correcting speling, puntuation, and grammar errors in your writing
What is editing?
500
all knowing, godlike
What are some words that describe the pont of view of the "omniscient" narrator?
500
inferring
What is combining what you already know from life with what the story or article says to figure out what the author really means?
500
An organizer used to analyze different elements of a story including the basic situation, rising action, climax and resolution.
What is a "plot diagram" or a "plot chart"?
500
information from the text that can help us understand a new word or unfamiliar word
What are "context clues"?
500
sharing a carefully typed or handwritten error-free "final" draft of your writing
What is publishing?