Vocabulary
What are context clues?
A "doing" or "being" word.
What is a verb?
The main thing that the informational text is about.
What is the central idea?
A writing strategy that is used in an SCR.
What is RACE?
The text STRUCTURE that used the signal words: difference, fewer, worse, then and now, like/unlike.
What is Compare and Contrast?
To compare two things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
A word used in place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
The examples, statistics, and facts in a passage that point to the central idea.
What are supporting details?
What RACE stands for.
R=restate the question;
A=answer the question;
C=cite text evidence;
E=explain how the text evidence shows that your answer is correct.
The text feature that shows us what something looks like.
What is a photo?
When something, for example, the theme of a text, is not stated directly in the text, it is _________.
What is "implied?"
The definition of an adverb.
What is a word that describes a verb?
Special characteristics about an informational text, including title, table of contents, photos, captions, timelines, bolded words, etc.
What are text features?
The minimum (least) number of sentences that an SCR can have.
What is 3?
The text feature that shows us where to find something.
What is a map?
What you do when the theme of a passage is implied.
What is "You infer the theme of the passage."?
The sentences that have an "i" in them that should be capitalized.
a. i went to the store.
b. Tomorrow, i'm going back to the store.
c. The store is a fun place to visit.
What is: "a" and "b"?
One of 5 ways that an informational text is organized, or "built."
What is a text structure?
True or false: Text evidence in an SCR doesn't have to be an exact quote or even relevant, it just has to have quotation marks.
What is false?
A text feature that can show us a closeup of something.
What is an inset?
When you give human traits or characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
A type of pronoun that does not need an antecedent.
What is an indefinite pronoun?
The 5 text structures in informational text.
What are Problem and Solution, Description, Compare and Contrast, Chronological/Sequence, and Cause and Effect.
The thing that is missing in this SCR:
The theme of the story is that friendship is important. The text says, "Friendship is good for everyone."
What is "E" - explain, explaining why the text evidence proves that the theme is friendship is important.
What the boxed text tells us.
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Liberty Hill Museum
123 Fourth Avenue, Liberty Hill
Hours: Monday-Friday 8am - 5pm
Admission: $2 adults, $1 kids
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What is information that a visitor to the museum might need.