End of Year Review

Actively listening, responding appropriately, discussing disagreements with respect, and documenting responses for later referencing

• annotating

• effective collaboration

• intended audience

• close reading strategies

A reason or intent for writing

• intended audience

• literary devices

• figurative language

• author's purpose

A literary device that compares two things in an interesting way using the words like or as

• imagery

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

The final outcome or “untangling” of events of the story

• rising action

• resolution

• exposition

• falling action

The people that writers expect will read and interact with their work

• intended audience

• author's purpose

• personal narrative

• credible source

The use of literal or figurative language to add symbolism and enable the reader to imagine the world of a piece of literature.

• personification

• imagery

• mood

• metaphor

The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story 

• mood

• tone

• irony

• symbolism

Specific techniques that allow a writer to convey a deeper meaning that goes beyond what’s on the page

• imagery

• close reading strategies

• annotating

• literary devices

Dramatic true stories based on facts or realistic events written using a fictional format

• literary nonfiction

• fiction

• argumentative text

• informational text

Telling the most important parts of a text, in your own words, in a much shorter way.

• paraphrasing

• annotating

• summarizing

• inferencing