Power Words

an event, action, or feeling that makes something happen and then what happens

• conflict - situation - problem

• climax

• exposition

• cause/effect

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a logical guess about information that is not directly stated

• making connections

• exposition

• inference

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work

• author's purpose

• character

• falling action

• fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a type of literature

• cause/effect

• central/main idea

• genre

• falling action

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

describes a story told by a character who uses the pronoun "I"

• author's purpose

• first person point of view

• third person point of view

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

their main reason for writing, keeping the audience in mind (persuade - inform - entertain)

• author's purpose

• theme

• climax

• genre

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

includes the events that follow the climax

• exposition

• rising action

• falling action

• plot

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

key point in nonfiction

• exposition

• genre

• inference

• central/main idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

linking background knowledge to the text (examples: text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world)

• central/main idea

• making connections

• fiction

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D