Genre
What is a informational text and its characteristics?
A text that informs over a topic.
Sub headings, photographs, bolded words, captions and dates
What are does R.A.C.E stand for?
Restate the question
Answer
Cite evidence
Explain
Explain Main idea
Main Idea is...
what the section or selection is mostly about
The Secret Gardeners
Mateo and his sister Lily stood in the middle of the vacant lot next to their apartment. It was filled with tall weeds and rusty soda cans. "It doesn't look like much now," Lily whispered, clutching a packet of sunflower seeds. "But wait until July." Every evening for a month, the siblings quietly pulled weeds and turned the soil. They didn't tell anyone. They wanted the neighborhood to wake up one morning to a wall of bright, yellow petals instead of a pile of trash.
1. Based on the passage, the reader can conclude that Mateo and Lily are —
A. hoping to sell the flowers to their neighbors for a profit.
B. trying to improve their community without being noticed.
C. upset that the vacant lot has so much trash in it.
D. worried that the sunflower seeds will not grow in the dirt.
When joining 2 complete sentences you must have a _________ and a _____________.
comma and conjunction (fanboy)
What are the characteristics of a fiction story and what are the Plot elements?
Characters, dialogue, conflict and setting.
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
When you get to your ECR section of the test, If the question is asking you to pick between 2 different things, what type of essay are you writing?
Argumentative, and you need to have 2 reasons as to why you chose this option to support you claim.
What is Author's purpose?
Why the...
The reason why the Author is writing the text.
(to persuade, inform or entertain the reader)
The girl ran away from the disgusting monster. She watched aghast as it slowly followed its prey and attacked.
Using context clues, what does aghast mean?
scared or horrified
How would you combine these sentences?
The baby was still crying. The mom did not pick him up.
The baby was still crying, but the mom did not pick him up.
The text is about the way rabbits survive in their environment. What genre of reading is this?
Fiction, Nonfiction/Informational Text, Drama or Poetry
This is nonfiction/informational text.
What is text structure and what different text structures did we learn about?
Text structure is the way an author organizes the information in the text.
Chronological order/Sequence, Cause and effect, Problem and solution, Compare and contrast.
What are context clues and how do you use them?
Context clues are words or phrases within a text that help identify meanings of unfamiliar words.
What is the THEME of a story or text?
Theme is...
A lesson or moral message of the story
Which word is "possessive" or "owning something"
Sarah's or Sarahs
Sarah's
What are characteristics in poem?
Stanzas, lines, stanza breaks and rhyme
What are the parts to an ECR?
Introduction: Restate and answer
Body (2x): Topic sentence, Evidence and Explain
Conclusion: Repeat your restate and answer.
What is it called when there's a really descriptive part in a story that uses the 5 senses?
Imagery
For chef Enrique Olvera, preparing food is very important. As a kid, Olvera spent time in his grandmother’s bakeshop in Mexico City. He has fond memories of working with his grandmother to turn masa1 into handmade tortillas. Food author Samin Nosrat says making bread with your hands is a mindful experience. She mentions turning the dough, feeling the wetness. “That kind of stuff, to me, is what makes us human.”
Which sentence from paragraph 2 in the article “Cultural Cooking Connections” shows that cooking is a skill that families share with one another?
He has fond memories of working with his grandmother to turn masa into handmade tortillas.
How do you write the words "must not" as a contraction?
Mustn't
What is a drama and what characteristics does it have?
A drama is a play.
Characters, scenes, scene directions and
When taking the Reading STAAR, what strategies do you need to show?
Hint: There's 4 things
1. What type of text it is (Inform., Fiction, Poem or Drama)
2.Annotate (plot diagram, poetry, informational.)
3. Author's Purpose (P.I.E.D)
4. Point of View (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
What does it mean to infer?
To infer...
you take what you already know and use text evidence to figure it out what can happen without being told explicitly.
Should state testing (STAAR) be a requirement for students to pass to the next grade level?
Argumentative
State testing should/shouldn't be required for students to pass to the next grade level.
The boy were walking along carnation street when he seen the cars crash?
What 5 corrections needs to be made?
The boy WAS walking along Carnation Street when he SAW the cars crash.