RI.8.1
This is the term for a direct quote or specific detail from a text used to support an answer.
What is textual evidence?
This is the main point the author wants you to take away from a text.
What is the central idea?
This term describes the relationship between two ideas, showing how they impact each other.
What is a connection?
What is a synonym for the word “happy”?
What is joyful, cheerful, or delighted?
When making an inference, you combine two things. What are they?
What are textual evidence and prior knowledge?
A good summary should include these two key elements.
What are the central idea and key details?
Authors use comparison, contrast, and cause-effect to do this.
What is to show relationships between ideas?
Identify one type of context clue that helps define a word.
What is definition, synonym, antonym, or example clues?
Identify a strategy for selecting the best evidence to support a claim.
What is looking for the most relevant and strongest evidence?
True or False: A summary should include personal opinions.
What is false?
Name one way an author can distinguish between individuals, events, or ideas in a text.
What is using specific descriptions, examples, or contrasting details?
This is the word part that comes before a root word and changes its meaning.
What is a prefix?
This type of question requires you to go beyond the text and make an educated guess.
What is an inference question?
Identify a strategy for determining the central idea of a passage.
What is looking at the title, repeated ideas, or the first and last sentences?
What is the difference between cause-effect and problem-solution text structures?
What is cause-effect explains why something happens, while problem-solution presents an issue and a way to fix it?
The suffix -able in "comfortable" means this
What is "capable of" or "able to be"?
Explain why citing multiple pieces of evidence strengthens an argument.
What is because it provides a stronger, well-supported claim?
How can a central idea evolve throughout a longer text?
What is through additional evidence, development of arguments, or shifts in perspective?
How does analyzing how individuals interact in a text help readers?
What is it helps readers understand motivations, relationships, and the impact on the overall message?
How does breaking a word into roots, prefixes, and suffixes help determine meaning?
What is it allows you to figure out unfamiliar words by understanding their parts?