Understanding information
facts or information from a text, used as support for whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
What is Textual Evidence?
Patterns used by authors to organize written information
What are Text Structures?
to find or discover by investigation
a message conveyed to the reader in a text; akin to central idea
This amendment to the US Constitution protects such things as the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, and the freedom to assemble.
What is the First (1st) Amendment?
To decide the value or worth after study; to judge
What is Evaluate?
the way in which information is arranged
What is the Format?
The exact location of a quotation or reference from a text brought forward as support
What is a Citation?
The thought, concept, notion, or impression that is of greatest importance in the text or portion of the text
What is the Central Idea?
This amendment to the US Constitution protects citizens from self-incrimination and double jeopardy, as well as protects their right to a jury trial.
What is the Fifth (5th) Amendment?
To separate into its constituent elements or parts; to break into smaller parts for the purpose of study or examination
What is Analyze?
A logical assumption based upon information from the text plus prior knowledge and/or experience
What is an Inference?
To express meaning using different words, without impacting the original purpose of the author or speaker
What is Paraphrase?
Important words and/or phrases
What are Key Details?
This speech by Abraham Lincoln was given at a cemetery to commemorate the dead and rally the nation in war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
A brief statement that contains the essential ideas of a longer passage
What is (a) Summary/Summarize?
a sophisticated inference; a logical assumption based on multiple pieces of information from a text plus prior knowledge and/or experience
What is a Conclusion?
Subject
What is the Topic?
Opinion, perspective, position
What is Point of view?
This amendment to the US Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
What is the Second (2nd) Amendment?
In this short story read in class, the main characters hear a Tyrannosaurus Rex roar, and a gunshot, that all sound like the title.
What is "A Sound of Thunder"
When the date is presented as Day Month Year (29 March 2022)
What is MLA Format?
to note similarities
What is Compare?
the author's, speaker's, character's, or narrator's attitude toward a particular subject
What is Tone?
This seminal US Text begins with the phrase, "We the People..."
What is the US Constitution?