Sentences
Every sentence must have these 2 parts of speech.
Hints that help you define difficult or unknown words
Context Clues
What is central idea?
what the ENTIRE passage is about.
What does RACE stand for?
Restate, answer, cite, explain
This is your opinion or your answer to the question.
Claim.
The subject includes what part of speech?
Noun or subject of the sentence.
Unlike my parents, who love to play golf, I flurpe it. What does flurpe mean?
hate
What is main idea?
What each paragraph is mostly about.
What do you restate when using race?
The question asked
What you explain.
Evidence
The predicate contains what part of speech?
Verb or what the subject is doing
What are the different types of context clues?
Look around the word, look inside the word, background knowledge, check you guess.
Ways to find central/main idea? (4)
Look for repeated words, Look for headings and other text features, Look at the topic, ask what is the big idea about the topic.
What words tell you the order of a story
Transition words.
The details that prove your answer to be true.
Evidence
Sentence type when FANBOYS are used
Compound
Using context clues what does the italcize word mean?
I work at the heliobioelectroal plant.
Electric sun life plant
Which sentences usually contain the main idea of a paragraph?
First or last
Stories should follow a ________ order
Logical
Where does evidence come from?
The text.
Sentence type that combines independent and dependent clauses
Complex
What does the italicized word mean?
I know a contradictologist.
Gingerbread is a popular used in many different ways during the holidays. One of the most well-known uses is the constructing of a gingerbread house. Gingerbread houses are made my families and people of all ages. There are even Gingerbread house making competitions.
Gingerbread is popular at Christmas.
This is the most difficult step in RACE
E-explain
Your claim and evidence should...
Support each other and be relevant to each other.