Context Clues and Vocabulary
What is a context clue?
A hint or words or phrases that tell you want an unknown word means in a sentence.
What is the text evidence?
specific quote or facts from a text that support your answer to a question
What is the plot?
What is a character trait?
qualities, values, and behavioral patterns that define who a person is or how a fictional character acts or describing words
What is a narrative text?
A story
What is the meaning of the word, raggedy, as used in the sentence.
"A sweater like that all raggedy and old."
A. worn out B. new C. stinky
A. worn out
This piece of text evidence supports what claim?
"What they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1."
Rachel doesn't feel eleven
Decide which character trait is being used:
Maya is polite to everyone, never takes things that do not belong to her, and always listens carefully when her teacher is talking. A. respectful B. snarky C.mean
A. respectful
Name one narrative technique?
Dialogue, imagery, sensory details, point of view
What is the meaning of the word, envious, as used in the sentence?
"Horse, envious, complained he was getting hungry too."
jealous or wanting what someone else has
This is the term for copying a sentence directly from a text word-for-word and placing it inside quotation marks to support your claim.
quote
What is the climax?
The turning point or the main conflict in the story (the highest peak)
What character trait could we use to describe Rachel?
Shy, scared, nervous, introverted, sad
Narrative writing should include conflict. What are the two types of conflicts?
Internal and External
"Then we became so absorbed in our Marvel Family Comics we missed our station."
interested or focused on
What text evidence can you use to support the answer to the claim: Rachel believes that wise people or adults know how to handle frustration.
In the text she says that she wishes she were 102 and then she would have known what to do when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on her desk.
What are all the elements of the plot?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
What character trait could we use to describe the Horse in Scout's Honor?
stubborn, argumentative, envious
The primary message, moral, or lesson about life that the author wants the reader to take away from a narrative.
Theme
What is the meaning of the word, simultaneously, as it is used in this sentence?
"Grinning with relief, we simultaneously, clasped hands."
at the same time
"Then a ray of hope struck me, maybe the other guys had chickened out. If they had, I could quit because of them. I glanced back. My heart sank. They were coming."
What part of the plot is this? And how do you know?
"We rushed on, only to have Horse scream, "My mattress!" He had left it on the platform."
Honest, truthful
What the story is mostly about in a narrative text is called the ________________
Central Idea