Plot, Setting, Characterization
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What happens because of the setting?
What does the setting cause to happen?
How does the setting change things?
What's important about the setting?
How does the setting effect the characters?
What is the theme of the story? Which two details support your answer?
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What's the theme and how do you know?
What is the theme and which two details show it happening?
What is the character learning and how does the author show us?
Which detail from the text best demonstrates the text structure?
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Which detail shows the text structure?
Which answer choice has a key word for a text structure?
Which detail shows a text structure happening, ex- has a cause or effect or problem or solution?
Which central idea of the text does the image support?
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What's happening in the picture? What answer choice does it match?
How is the image related to what's going on in the text?
What is the author's perpective on______?
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How do they feel about the topic?
What's their opinion about it?
Did they like or not like the topic?
How does ______'s character effect the story?
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What are they like and how does that change things?
What happens because of their traits?
What happens because of how the author wrote the character?
How is ______'s perspective different from _____'s perspective?
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How do they both feel? How is it different?
How is how _____ feel different from how _____ feels?
What new information do you learn from the graph?
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What does the graph show?
What did you learn from the graph that was not already mentioned?
Which is true about the graph?
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What does the thing at the bottom of the page mention about the central idea?
How is the footnote related to the main idea?
Which detail from the text best shows the author's perspective?
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Which answer choice shows the author's opinion or emotion?
Which shows feelings or emotions?
Which shows how the author feels?
What effect does paragraph 3 have on the plot?
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What do we learn in paragraph 3?
What happens in paragraph 3?
What new information do we get in paragraph 3?
What happens because of paragraph 3?
Which detail from the text best supports the theme of the story?
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Which detail shows the theme happening?
Which detail best shows the theme?
Which detail show the conflict or the reaction to the conflict?
Which answer best describes the overall structure of the text?
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What is the text structure of the whole passage?
What's the main text structure?
Select two detail that support the central idea that forest fires can actually be good for wildlife?
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Which two detail show something positive happening after or during a fire?
Which details show something good related to fire?
What details show something positive for wildlife?
How does the text structure add to the author's purpose?
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What's the text structure? What's the author's reason for writing this?
What's the text structure? What's going on in the text?
What effect does (character) have on the plot?
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What happens because of this character?
What does this character make happen?
How is this character important?
Which detail from the text best reveals the character's perspective?
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Which detail shows how they feel?
Which answer choice has an emotion word?
How does the character feel and which quote shows you that happening?
What is the text structure of paragraph _____? Which detail from the text supports your answer from?
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What's the text structure of that paragraph and how do you know?
What's text structure is happening in that paragraph? Which detail proves it?
Which best shows the central idea of the text? Which two detail support your answer?
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What is the most important thing happening in the text? Which two details mention that idea?
What's the text mostly about? Which two answer choices show that happening?
What is a claim that the author makes? Which two detail support your answer?
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What is the author saying is true? How do they prove it?
What is the author claiming and which two details show it?
How do ______'s actions impact the plot of the story?
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What happens because of what ____ does?
What does ____ cause to happen?
How does ____ change things?
How does the character's perspective change throughout the story?
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What where they feeling at the beginning vs how were they feeling at the end?
How do the character's feeling change?
Do they change their opinion and how?
How does the text structure contribute to your understanding of the text?
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What's the text structure and what's going on in the text?
Which is the best summary of the passage?
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Which answer shows the central idea and relevant details?
Which answer shows the most important parts of the text?
Which sentence from the passage provides the best evidence for the author’s claim that the U.S. has a difficult time making sure all seafood is safe?
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Which sentence shows seafood being unsafe?
Which sentence shows that it would difficult to make all seafood safe?
Which detail shows evidence? Ex- has numbers or proof?