Informational
Terms
Terms
This term is for the authors opinion or reason for writing the text and how did they achieve it by explaining and supporting their opinion.
What is Authors Purpose?
What is the universal message in a literature text ?
Daily Double: Give an example of what a _____ is and is not!
What is theme?
Hasty Generalization, Non Sequitor, Red Herring, Slippery slope are examples of ________ _________ which are errors in reasoning in the form of misleading or irrelevant information
What are logical fallacies?
You will get marked as getting questions wrong if you jump ahead to look at the questions. You need to answer _____ _________ ___ _ ______.
One question at a time
Mr. Collora's cat's name
What is Orange?
This term is the topic + Point of a text.
You determine topic from the title
You determine the point from key details or repeated ideas from the text.
What is central Idea ?
Facts, examples, quotes, expert opinion, statistics, are all ways that authors support their _______.
What is a claim?
If you are getting overwhelmed or tired you should...
You should not......
You should take a break, ask to go to the bathroom or get water, have a mint!
You should not, take a nap, skip through answers to hurry and finish, distract others.
This is the full acronym that makes up the R.A.C.E. strategy
Restate the question
Answer in your own words
Cite evidence
Elaborate/Expand on
To make an educated guess or prediction based on the text
What is inference? (or infer)
The term is used when referring to the perspective of the person who is the narrator.
What is Point of View?
The term point of view is used when referring to the person who is the narrator.
This term is reasoning based on observation and patterns to reach the most likely explanation. Example: You walk into the kitchen and see cookie crumbs on the counter, the cookie jar is half-empty, and your little brother has chocolate on his face.
Best guess: Your little brother ate some cookies.
What is Abductive reasoning?
This term is when you stop to jot down what you read about Every few paragraphs. You should be doing this for most of your test.
If you are overwhelmed with a text, this will help!
What is chunking the text/ writing gist statements?
These are the three possible types of texts you could see on a FAST-reading test
(HINT: Think back to your brain dump)
Prose/Story
Informational
Poetry
This term is the author's attitude or feeling toward a subject, conveyed through word choice, sentence structure, and imagery, which shapes the reader's emotional response and overall perception of the piece.
What is tone and how is it developed?
Fill in the blank: The Author develops _________ though setting, character Actions, Dialogue, and how the resolve the conflict
What is theme?
This term is reasoning based on specific observations to form a general conclusion.
Example: On Monday, it rained when there were dark clouds. On Tuesday, it rained when there were dark clouds. On Wednesday, there were dark clouds and it rained again. Conclusion: When there are dark clouds, it usually rains
What is Inductive reasoning
The titles for each of the four columns on a graphic organizer that could help your test taking.
Question #
What is it asking for?
Your Answer
Justify It (Your Reasoning)
The Author of the Giver
Who is Lois Lowrey
This term is how the text is organized it tells us author’s purpose and helps you better understand what you read
Daily Double: Name 2 out of the 5 ways it an be organized
What is Text structure?
Daily Double: Problem/solution, Chronological, Description,
repeated use of objects, signs, and/or ideas that give the text a deeper meaning
What is Symbolism?
Example: Dove means peace
This type of is reasoning based on a general rule or fact, and then apply it to a specific situation.
Example: All students who finish their homework on time get to go to the class party. Mia finished her homework on time. Conclusion: Mia gets to go to the class party.
What is deductive reasoning?
The four Strategize It strategies
What are:
Cover it,
Eliminate it,
Justify it, and
Replace it?
The Author of Ghost
Who is Jason Reynolds