Character
What is a character?
A person, animal, or creature in a story
What is the setting?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is text evidence?
Details from the text that support an answer.
What does annotate mean?
To mark or write notes on a text.
Why do authors include important details in a story?
To help readers understand the story.
Name two ways an author helps readers learn about a character.
Actions, dialogue, thoughts, feelings, or descriptions.
What is an important event?
An event that helps move the story forward.
Why should readers use text evidence?
To support their thinking with proof from the text.
What does evidence mean?
Details that support an answer.
How do readers decide which evidence is the strongest?
They choose the detail that best supports the answer.
Which reveals more about a character: what they say or what they do? Explain your thinking.
Accept either with justification.
Why is the setting important to a story?
It helps readers understand the characters and events.
What makes one piece of evidence stronger than another?
It directly supports the claim or answer.
What does characterize mean?
To show what a character is like through actions, words, thoughts, or feelings
Why is explaining your thinking just as important as finding evidence?
It shows how the evidence supports the answer.
Why do authors introduce the main character at the beginning of a story?
So readers understand who the story is about and why the character is important.
Can changing the setting change the story? Explain.
Yes, because it can affect the characters, events, or conflict.
Can two people choose different evidence and both be correct? Explain.
Yes, if each uses relevant evidence to support their thinking.
How do context clues help readers?
They help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
How can two readers have different answers but both be correct?
If they support their thinking with strong evidence from the text.
How do a character's actions help move a story forward?
Their actions affect events and help develop the plot.
Which is more important—the setting or an important event? Defend your answer.
Answers will vary
How do you know if your evidence supports your answer?
It clearly matches and proves the claim.
What should readers do if they don't know the meaning of a word?
Use context clues, word parts, or reread.
Why do good readers stop and think while they read instead of just reading the words?
To understand, analyze, and make meaning from the text.