ELA Info Text

what the text is mostly about in its entirety and/or in various sentences, paragraphs or sections

• theme
• central idea
• summary
• tone

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

supporting information a writer or speaker uses to prove a claim

• details
• argument
• evidence
• mood

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

nonfiction texts that contain facts and information 

• fiction
• informational text
• prose
• poetry

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.6.6

the art of using words to persuade in writing or speaking

• tone
• style
• rhetoric
• language

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a written account of an author's own life

• biography
• autobiography
• poetry
• informational text

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is

• hyperbole
• simile
• oxymoron
• understatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

the use of verbal irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it

• syntax
• sarcasm
• dialogue
• dialect

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

the arrangement of words and order of grammatical elements in a sentence

• language
• dialect
• dialogue
• syntax

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

a comparison of two things to illustrate common aspects; examples: similes and metaphors

• analogy
• oxymoron
• hyperbole
• understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

the writer's targeted reader or readers

• people
• performers
• critics
• audience

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6