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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who is the authors audience?
The intended group that the piece is written for.
The people reading the passage.
The people who do not read the passage
Someone in a tree
What is author's craft?
The WAY an author writes the passage
WHY the author writes the passage
The TOOLS that the author uses in their writing.
(IE: text and graphic features)
WHO the author writes the passage for.
What is author's purpose?
Who the author is writing to
How the author writes the selection
Where the story takes place.
The reason an author writes about a particular topic. (PIE)
What is context?
The captions under a picture
The words, sentences or passages that precede or follow a specific word. (sentence or passage)
The tables in informational reading.
The pictures in the reading.
What is digital text?
Book reading
Text that is in a magazine.
Text that is electronic, can be read on an electronic device.
What is genre?
Who wrote the passage
The pictures in the passage
The type of writing. IE, informational, fiction, nonfiction
What is a key idea?
Important ideas throughout a work that will help support the central message of the writing.
Tables that are included in the reading to influence the reader.
Pictures and captions that are included to help the reader to understand the message.
What are multimodal texts?
Integration of two or more types of communication to create meaning. Including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts.
Writing in two different tones. (IE: angry and sad tones)
Reading two different passages.
What are organizational patterns?
How many pictures are included in a reading passage
How many paragraphs are
The pattern an author constructs as they organize the ideas and provide supporting details.
How would you define paraphrase?
To tell an entire story in the order it happened, including all the small details.
To restate the meaning of something in different words.
The small insignificant details of a story.
What does it mean to summarize?
Tell a brief synopsis of the store. (IE: Beginning, Middle, End)
The setting of the story.
Reading an entire passage.
What does Synthesize mean in reading?
To define the words in the reading that you do not understand.
Reading the tables that are included in the reading passage.
To combine elements and parts to form a coherent whole.
What is text structure?
The way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text. (IE: graphs, charts)
The setting of the story, (IE: Where did it happen)
Elements of the story
The conflict and resolution of a story
How would you define tone?
The plot of a story.
The rising action of the story.
The author's particular attitude, either stated or implied in their writing.
What would you define STYLE as in reading?
Simile, Metaphor, personification.
Charts, tables, graphs, pictures that are included in the reading to help gain understanding.
The unique characteristics that describe a writers use of language. (IE: figurative language contributes to this)
Define figurative language.
alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor, personification.
graphs or charts in reading
Captions in the picture.
What is a simile?
Giving human qualities to an inanimate object.
A comparison using like or as
A direct comparison without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
A direct comparison without using like or as.
The repetition of the first consonant sound of a word
A comparison using like or as
What is alliteration?
Comparison without using like or as.
Giving human qualities to an inanimate object.
The repetition of the first consonant sound of a word
When is your book project due?
April 6-7
May 10th
March 17th
February 12th.
