Category 1: The Echo (Restating)
When you "restate," you turn a question into this kind of sentence.
Answer: What is a Statement?
These "hugging" punctuation marks go around words you copied exactly from a book.
What are Quotation Marks?
After giving a quote, you must do this to show the reader you understand what it means.
What is Explain?
This mark goes at the end of a statement to show the thought is finished.
What is a period?
These are words that describe a noun, like shiny, fast, or brave.
Answer: What are Adjectives?
If the question is "What is your favorite color?", you should start your answer with these four words.
What is "My favorite color is..."?
This 4-letter word means to take a short piece of writing from a story to use in your own work.
What is a Cite (or Quote)?
This 7-letter word is another way to say "to give a reason for your answer."
What is Explain? (Or Support).
Every sentence must start with one of these "big" letters.
What is a capital letter?
This is an action word, like run, jump, or write.
What is a verb
You should always leave these "asking" words out of your restatement, such as Who, What, Where, and Why.
What are Question Words?
This is the name of the person who wrote the story or article you are using.
What is the Author?
An explanation should never just repeat the quote; it should tell the reader why the quote is _______.
What is Important (or Relevant)?
Use this mark to show you are excited or surprised.
What is an Exclamation Point?
Instead of saying "said" every time, you could use this more exciting word for a character yelling.
What is Shouted (or Exclaimed)?
True or False: You should include the answer to the question in your very first sentence.
What is True? (This is the "R" and "A" of RACE working together).
Use this short phrase to start your evidence sentence so the reader knows a quote is coming.
What is "The text says..." (or "According to the author...")?
You can start an explanation with this 4-word phrase: "This shows that..."
What is an Explanation Starter?
This "leaning" mark is used to separate items in a list, like "apples, oranges, and grapes."
What is a Comma?
These are words that connect ideas, like And, But, and Because.
Answer: What are Conjunctions?
If a question asks two things (like "Where did he go and why?"), your restatement must include this many parts to be complete.
What is Two?
When you only want to use a piece of a long sentence from a book, you use these three little dots (...) to show where you skipped words.
What are Ellipses?
An explanation should always connect your evidence back to this—the very first thing you wrote in your paragraph.
What is the Claim (or Answer)?
This punctuation mark is used to show that someone is speaking out loud in a story.
What are Quotation Marks?
These are "replacement" words like He, She, It, or They that you use so you don't have to keep repeating a person's name.
What are Pronouns?