Sign Post Textual Evidence
When a character realizes, learns, or understands something new.
What is an AHA! moment
When you compare a characters actions to what you would personally do.
What is a contrast moment.
This could help you make a prediction or make an inference about the plot or conflict.
What is Contrasts moment.
To make an educated guess.
What is a prediction.
When a character is given advice from someone wiser and/or older.
What is a Words of the Wiser moment.
When the character ask himself difficult questions.
What is a Tough Questions moment.
If the character figured out a problem, you probably just learned about the conflict.
What is an AHA! moment.
To use textual evidence and reasoning to come to a conclusion about the text.
What is inferencing.
When the story is interrupted and a moment from the past is revealed.
What is a memory moment.
Teaches a lesson and usually reveals the theme of the story.
What is a Words of the Wiser moment.
If the character understood a life lesson, you probably just learned the theme.
What is an AHA! moment.
When the story is interrupted to reveal something about the past.
What is flashback.
What is an Again and Again moment.
Tells you about the theme and conflict, or might foreshadow what will happen later.
What is an Again and Again moment.
The answers will tell you about the conflict and might give you ideas about what will happen later in the story.
What is a Tough Questions moment.
When the story is interrupted to reveal something that could happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing.
What is a contradiction moment.
The answers will tell you about the theme, conflict, or might foreshadow what will happen later in the story.
What is a Memory Moment.
Images and descriptions can lead us to recognize and/or question the contradiction behavior.
What is a Contradiction moment.
To act in a way you normally would not act.
What is contradicting.