ELA 1
What is text evidence?
Evidence you can pull directly from the passage that supports your answer.
What is a verb?
An action or something you can do.
What punctuation marks do you use to cite evidence from the text.
Quotation marks
What are context clues?
Using words around an unknown word to find the meaning.
What is theme?
The message or lesson of the story.
Define each letter in RACE.
R-Restate the question
A-Answer the question
C-Cite the evidence
E-Explain your thinking
What is a noun?
A person, place or thing.
What does chronological order mean?
order of events from first to last
compare/contrast
problem/solution
description
cause/effect
sequence
What does it mean to cite text evidence?
Provide evidence from the story
What are the parts of the informational essay?
Introduction, body, paragraphs and conclusion.
Name 3 adjectives
description words
conclude
Bring something to an end.
selection
passage, story. or text
What is an adjective?
a word that describes a noun
What is the controlling idea?
The main idea or thesis.
Name two conjunctions.
F-For
A-And
N-Nor
B-But
O-Or
Y-Yet
S-So
summary
is a brief statement, or restatement of main points providing the most important facts about a topic.
What does (SCR) stand for?
Short Constructed Response
Thesis/Claim
The sentence that tells what your writing is going to be about.
What is author purpose?
P- Persuade (the author wants you to do or try something)
I-Inform (the author is trying to give you information or teach you something)
E- Entertain (the author is trying to make the reader enjoy the story)
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different.
selection
reading passage, text or story
What is the central idea?
The main point of the story
What does ECR mean?
Extended Constructed Response