What readers already know about topics, words, or ideas in a text.
What is Prior Knowledge?
This symbol is used when you do not understand something.
What is ?
Writing that is based on real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is Nonfiction?
The answer is in one sentence of the text.
What is Right There?
A statement that can be argued is called this.
What is Claim?
Things that repeat in a text.
What is Patterns?
This symbol is used when you are surprised by something.
What is !
A type of figurative language that differs from the literal meaning of the words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).
What is Idiom?
The answer is in the text but you need to look at more than one sentence.
What is Think and Search?
Information from a text that supports or helps prove a claim.
What is Evidence?
Information revealed in illustrations or photographs.
What is Pictures?
This symbol is used for essential details.
What is * (stars)
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is Personification?
Use what the writer tells you and your own knowledge to determine the answer.
What is Writer and Me?
An explanation of how the evidence supports the claim.
What is Reasoning?
Checking a Prediction by reading.
What is Proving?
This symbol is used for important events or ideas.
What is underlined
This form of figurative language indirectly refers to something without naming it directly. EG to wash your hands of something, or brush this off your shoulders.
What is Allusion?
Use you own knowledge to determine the answer.
What is On My Own?
CER stands for what?
Claim Evidence Reasoning
Name the 4P's of Prediction.
What are Prior Knowledge, Patterns, Pictures, and Proving?
Only for Social Studies, this annotation symbol is used for viewpoints.
What is circled
In literature, the relationship where one event makes another event happen, the driving plot, revealing character motivations, and developing themes like fate or morality. Authors using signal words like "because," "so," and "therefore"
What is Cause and Effect?
QAR stands for this.
What is Question Answer Relationship?
RACER stands for
Restate the question, Answer the question, Cite evidence, Explain the evidence, and Recap or Review the response.