Drama
Fiction
Poetry
General Strategies
General Strategies Cont/ Vocab
100

Tells the actor what to do

What is stage directions.

100

The reason a character does something 

What character motivation?

100

The way the author feels is 

What is mood?

100

R in the RACE strategy stands for ?

What is restate the question to begin your answer. You can do this by flipping the question into a sentence starter.

100

I can make an inference by using 

What is text evidence and background knowledge?
200

The lines that are spoken by the cast

What is diaglogue?

200

To describe a characters feelings, actions, sayings, and thoughts make up the 

What is character qualities?

200
When words mean something than the literal meaning

What is figurative language?

200

A in the RACE strategy?

What is Answer the question to begin your thoughts on the question. 

Example: 

Question- What is one way the author builds suspense in “Rogue Wave?”

Answer- The author builds suspense in “Rogue Wave”  when Sully, in his desperation, attempts to save his sister, Scoot, from drowning using telepathy.

300

The elements that make up the story is 

What is plot?

300

C in The RACE strategy stands for ? 

What is Cite evidence from the text?

Example: “He’d heard of mental telepathy but had not thought much about it before. Now it was the only way to reach her” (p. 16).

300

To imply means 

To strongly suggest 

400

The element of fiction where the problem reaches its peak and the character figures out how to solve the problem

The turning point or climax?

400

E in the RACE strategy stands for

What is Explain how the evidence supports your answer? Elaborate, which means to add more detail about what you’ve already said.

Example: 

Sully can't think of any other way to help, so he clings to the hope that sending mental messages will save her.  Like Sully, the reader wonders if this will work.  The suspense builds as we read to find out if Scoot will be able to save herself.

400

To retell a series of events in your own words

What is a summary?

500

Tells the actor what to do

What are stage directions?

500

When you go beyond the author's words to understand what is not said in the text?


What is an inference?

500

What the text is mostly about and what the author wants me to understand?

What is Main idea