Question Types
Steps to Answer a Question
Vocabulary
Important Annotations
TDQ CFS
100

Name the question type: 

Based on the details in paragraphs 5 through 7, what is a theme in the story?

What is a theme question? 

100

Name Step One: 

Five Steps to Answer a Multiple Choice Question

1. ______________

2. ______________

3. ______________

4. ______________

5. Select an answer

What is attack the prompt (ATP)? 

100

Another name for an assertion 

What is a claim? 

100

Annotation you make when you see "how"

What is in what way?

100

What must your second interpretation always do 

What is explain evidence and connect back to your assertion 
200

Name the question type: 

How are Seema’s and Raju’s responses to Seema’s upcoming move to America different?

What is a difference question? 
200

Name Step Two: 

Five Steps to Answer a Multiple Choice Question

1. Attack the prompt 

2. ______________

3. ______________

4. ______________

5. Select an answer

What is write a job? 

200

Deriving from or affected by uncontrolled extreme emotion.

What is a hysterical?

200

Annotation you make when you see "through" (ex. paragraphs 1 through 4) 

What is "all"? 

200

CFS for a strong assertion

What are: 

- Answers question with NO evidence

- Restates the question

- Includes Argument (by, because, when) Ask yourself: “Can I prove this argument with evidence?”

300

Name the question type: 

How does the author support her claim that Dorothy Gaters motivates girls “both on and off the court”?

What is a claim-evidence question? 

300

Name Step Three: 

Five Steps to Answer a Multiple Choice Question

1. Attack the Prompt

2. Write a Job

3. ______________

4. ______________

5. Select an answer

What is go back into the text and find evidence (to support your answer) ?

300

To become progressively worse.

What is deteriorate? 

300

Annotation you make within a fiction text

What are characters, problem, solution, lesson learned, mini + whole text CI?

300

CFS for strong evidence selection 

What are: 

- Clear: Introduces the evidence with a tag or context

- Specific : :Quoted from the text

- Relevant: Proves your assertion

400

Name question type: 

How do paragraphs 4 through 6 contribute to the development of “Two Days With No Phone”?

What is a part to whole question? 
400

Name Step Four: 

Five Steps to Answer a Multiple Choice Question

1. Attack the Prompt

2. Write a Job

3. Go back into the text and find evidence to justify your answer

4. ______________

5. Select an answer

What is use process of elimination?

400

(Of a message, sound, or transmission) confused and distorted; unclear.

What is garbled? 

400

Annotations you make within a non-fiction text

Problem, solution, mini + whole text CIs (for each heading section), who the text is about 

400

CFS for a strong interpretation

What are: 

- My interpretation explains my evidence and connects back to my assertion 

- My interpretation includes a “because” statement

- My interpretation  ZOOMS IN on what is actually happening in the evidence (When is says,...this proves… because…)

500

Name question type: 

According to the article, what factors are causing more teenagers to experience hearing loss?

What is a cause and effect question? 

500

Steps to answer a part to whole question

What are: 

1. Identify the part, go back to the text 

2. Make a mini CI for the section 

3. Go back to your whole text CI 

(4. Select your MC answer + Use process of elimination/ Write your assertion)

500

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (Ex: As brave as a lion, crazy like a fox).

What is a simile? 

500

Provide Exemplar Annotations for the ENTIRE Question: 

In "Excerpt from Midnight Fox," what theme is supported by paragraphs 1 through 5? Use two details from the story to support your response.

What are: 

What --> Describe

theme --> universal message

supported --> helps

paragraphs 1 through 5 --> Go back/ev

through --> all

500

Based off of the CFS and question, look at the each assertion and name whose is stronger: 

Q: Why did scientists choose Devon Island to prepare for journeys to Mars?

Elsa: Scientists chose Devon Island because "it has an impact crater" and resembles the climate of Mars. 

Anna: Scientists chose Devon Island for journeys to Mars because the island had an impact crater and created a climate that mostly resembled conditions on Mars. 

Who is Anna? 

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