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| Chinese, shiny, red, blue, five, loud, rapid, safe… |
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| mine, yours, his, her, our, their, theirs, ours… |
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| Mrs. McCall, Jasaye, Camden Middle School, Mike, Starbucks… |
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| star, ball, school, car, hat, coffee, strawberry, pickle… |
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| love, happiness, joy, hope, faith… |
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| what is alike and what is different |
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| offering a dilemma and solving it |
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| am, is, are, was, were, become, seem... |
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| run, swim, jog, dance, work, sing, play… |
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| quickly, rapidly, slowly, quietly, hopefully, very |
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| boom, crash, bang, swish, shush |
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| She is a beast. He is a nasty trashcan. The dog is a mean snake. |
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| She is as slow as a turtle, hot like the sun, ugly like a dog, fat like a sausage, fast like a snake, smelly as a moldy cake |
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| The toilet screamed. The wind called. The cars gossiped. |
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| Eli, the boy in the gold beads, earned money. |
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| extra details in writing that are unneeded and unrelated to the topic |
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| Extraneous or Irrelevant Details |
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| clear, easy to understand |
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| how the author feels about what he is writing |
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| how it makes the reader feel |
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| where and when the story takes place |
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| introduction/rising action/climax/falling action/resolution |
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*info about characters comes from dialogue
*includes plays
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*animals are characters
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* usually involve a trick |
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| writing about life of another person |
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| write about your own life |
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| Has daily/weely entries, first-person point of view |
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| why to buy Cheerios instead of Fruit Loops, which pet to buy, who to elect for President |
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| drawings, pictures of information |
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| Used with an action verb/ tells who is recieving the action |
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| I threw Gabe the pencil. (Gabe) |
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| I threw Gabe the pencil. (threw) |
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| Subject (Personal Pronoun) |
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| I threw Gabe the pencil. (the) |
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| I threw Gabe the pencil. (Gabe) |
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| Proper Noun/Indirect Object |
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| describe the subject/ with linking verbs |
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| rename the subject/ with linking verbs |
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| Gabe was a student. (student) |
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| man v man man v nature man v self man v society |
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| Conjunctions- for and nor or but yet so |
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| either/or, not only/but also |
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| CorRELATIVE conjunctions (pairs) |
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| on the couch, near the wall, beside the bed, around the room, under the bridge |
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| nice, mean, smart, blonde, beautiful |
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| Adjectives (Character Traits) |
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| “Go home,” said Mrs. McCall. |
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| Nah, I aint fixin to do dat. |
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| myself, herself, ourselves, himself, itself |
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| means you are in the story “I” or “our” or “we” (POV) |
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| someone else telling the story from above (POV) |
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| the sentence that tells what the rest of the paragraph is about |
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| Topic Sentence/Unifying Sentence |
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| give supporting information for the topic sentence, give proof |
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| choose a topic and NARROW it DOWN!!!!! |
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| Frist step in the research process |
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| an exaggeration/ I am so hungry I could eat a horse. |
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| over used phrase/ It’s raining cats and dogs. |
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| Al always ate apples in Augusta. |
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| move you from one topic to another like Next, Finally, First of all |
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| onyms- different/good and bad |
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| the passing of stories from one generation to another |
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*includes gods and goddesses
*explain something in nature
*includes humans that make mistakes |
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| everybody, somebody, anybody, each, someone |
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| a word that describes using the 5 senses |
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| the VERB is the same thing as the SIMPLE PREDICATE |
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| Wow! OMG! Goodness! Ahhh! Hey, |
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come before the main verb to indicate time
*I will be going to park. or *I have been riding the bus. |
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| a reference book that offers word substitutions |
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| Heading, Greeting, Body, Signature |
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| entertain, persuade, inform |
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| list of vocabulary words with definitions |
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| a list of topics found in a book with page numbers on where the reader can find information about that topic |
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| is the words underneath a picture or diagram that explains what the picture or diagram is about |
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| lesson about life from a story |
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| Non-fiction, Fiction, Drama, Oral Tradition, Poetry |
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| Mainly maps, but sometimes population information, tourist guides… |
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| words are the words at the top of the page in a dictionary that show the first and last word listed on that page |
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