Reading Detective
A conclusion the reader makes using text evidence and prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
The main struggle or problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
Words or phrases that appeal to sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch.
What are sensory details?
A word or phrase that has a similar meaning to another word.
What is a synonym?
Correcting spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.
What is editing?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
The events that develop the conflict and lead toward the climax.
What is the rising action?
The repeated use of words, sounds, phrases, or ideas.
What is repetition?
Information surrounding an unfamiliar word that helps readers determine its meaning.
What are context clues?
Improving ideas, organization, details, and word choice.
What is revising?
A character keeps practicing after making several mistakes. This character trait is best supported.
What is persistence or determination?
A scene that interrupts the present action to show something that happened earlier.
What is a flashback?
The attitude or personality expressed through an author’s language and style.
What is author’s voice?
In the sentence “The enormous backpack was cumbersome and difficult to carry,” which context clue helps define cumbersome?
What is “difficult to carry”?
This verb tense describes an action that already happened and may use an -ed ending or an irregular form.
What is past tense?
Name the two parts needed in a strong text-evidence response.
What are evidence and explanation?
A story takes place in 2088 and includes floating technology that protects people from dangerous sunlight. Identify the genre and evidence.
What is science fiction because it includes a future setting and imagined technology?
A poet repeats “Try, try” two times. Explain the effect.
What is the repetition emphasizes persistence and creates an encouraging voice?
In the sentence “The abandoned playground looked forlorn, empty, and forgotten,” what does forlorn mean?
What is sad, lonely, or abandoned?
This verb tense describes an action happening now or an action that happens regularly.
What is present tense?
While reading a passage, name these three useful details should be recorded in an annotation organizer.
What are "who or what the passage is about," "what happened," and a question or wonder about the passage?
A story begins in the present, shifts to a childhood memory, and then returns to the present. Explain how this structure affects the story.
What is the flashback provides important background information and creates a contrast between the past and present?
Complete AQC for a repeated phrase: name the three analytical moves in order.
What are Annotate the craft choice, Question why the author used it, and Conclude its effect?
In the sentence “After running under the hot sun, Camila felt drained and had no energy left,” identify the meaning of drained and the context evidence.
What is extremely tired, supported by “had no energy left”?
This part of speech describes how an action happens and often ends in -ly, as in “The audience listened attentively.”
What is an adverb?