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| Pre-writing | Brainstorming, Webbing, Graphic Organizers |
| Rough Draft | Getting your ideas on paper in a format |
| Five Step Writing Process | Pre-writing, Rough DRAFT, Revising, Editing, Good Copy |
| Revising | Rewrite, reread, rethink, add details |
| Editing | Correcting punctuation, spelling, grammar, indention, and sentence structure |
| Good Copy/Final Copy | Publish |
| Topic | One word that tells what it's all about |
| *Main Idea | *Sentence about all the other sentences *What is theme? *What is best title? |
| Setting | Time and Place where story is "set" up |
| Character Development/Chracter Traits | What a character says, thinks, looks like, does, and how other characters react to him/her |
| Plot | The plan of the story; what order did events happen in? |
| *Theme | Lesson learned or main thought through story |
| *Conflict | PROBLEM: Struggle between two opposing sides |
| Initiating Event | Event that STARTS the conflict in story |
| Rising Actions | Events that show conflict building to climax |
| *Climax | The high point of excitement in the story WHERE conflict starts being SOLVED |
| Falling Actions | Events showing the conflict being solved |
| Resolution | Point in story where conflict comes to end |
| Predict | Use background knowledge about what you'll read and clues from story to "GUESS" what will happen next |
| Background knowledge | What you know from experience about topic |
| Fiction | Fake; made up story |
| Non-fiction | Not fake; True |
| Narrative | A story EX. "The Three Little Pigs" |
| Noun | Person, thing, idea, place, or feeling |
| Verb | Word showing action, state of being, or linking noun to another noun or adjective |
| Conjunction | Word that connects two words, ideas, or phrases |
| *Simile | His dreams were like tears falling from the sky |
| *Metaphor | the bank was a vampire sucking money from everyone |
| *Hyperbole | the rabbit was traveling at the speed of sound |
| *Synonyms | Same - Small : Little |
| Antonyms | Opposite - Open : Closed |
| Analogy | Comparison of two pairs of words that each have same relationship |
| *Personification | the wind laughed as it blew more snow |
| *Onomatopeia | "Crash!" "tinkle" "Aawk" "Whooo" |
| Context Clues | Words in text that helps figure out meaning of unknown word |
| Drawing Conclusions | Using information from story & information from story to make true statement |
| Narrative Elements | Plot, Character, Setting, Conflict, Theme |
| Dialogue | Talking between characters; exact words said |
| Genre | A type of literature either fiction or non-fiction Ex. Folk tale, poetry, etc. |
| Summary | Short form; Choose just main events or facts - no details to retell |
| *Stanza | A paragraph in poetry |
| *Haiku | Japanese poem with 3 lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables |
| *Limerick | Five line poem that's usually funny that has A, A, B, B, A rhyme scheme |
| Alliteration | Having three or more words in a sentence starting with same letter |
| *Haiku Example | Shimmering leaves float// Soaring between bare branches// Laying on dry dirt |
| *Ballad | Poem that tells a story; How The Grinch Stole Christmas; Casey At The Bat |
| *Free Verse | Poem with NO RULES |
| *Repetition | repeating same words, or lines in poem |
| *Rhyme | When words end with the same sound; After that, he just sat |
| Paraphrase | To put what you read in your own words |
| InFerence | a fact you can Figure out based on background knowledge and clues from story |
| To InFer | to figure out |
| Context Clues | Words in sentence that helps you figure out meaning of unknown word |
| personal narrative | story about just "part" of someone's life |
| biography | Story of ALL of your life written by someone else |
| autobiography | Story about ALL of your life written by yourself |
| Multiple Meaning Words | One word that has more than one meaning Ex. "bat" |
| Cause & Effect | Way of organizing that states an effect and what caused it |
| Sequential | Method of organizing that lists in "some" order |
| Chronological | Organizational pattern that is based on the time of events happening |
| Problem & Solution | Organizational pattern that poses a problem first - then solutions |
| Generalization or Principal | Making a statement that is true as a general rule |
| comma splice | When two sentences are IMPROPERLY connected with just a comma |
| possessive form/shows possession | using an appostrophe to show someone owns something else |
| Contraction | Word that combines two words by leaving one more letters out and replacing with appostrophe |
| Affix | Is a name for any part added to a word like a prefix or suffix |
| Synonyms | Words meaning the same; cold & freezing |
| Antonym | Words meaning opposite; tall & short |
| Object to Action (analogy) | eyes : see; ear : hear |
| Source to product (analogy) | cow : mild; tree : lumber |
| Animal to habitat (analogy) | bear : cave ; bird : nest |
| Author's purpose - entertain | Why Harry Potter books were written |
| Author's purpose - inform | A non-fictions book about whales |
| Author's purpose - persuade | Article written to show all the advantages of wearing a motorcycle helmet |
| Iternal conflict | Problem going on in a character's head trying to decide what's best |
| External conflict | Problem going on between a character and another character, society, or nature |
