Story Elements
This is when/where the story takes place.
The setting
This is when two words sound the same but are spelled differently.
A homophone
What is Mrs. Angelica's favorite drink?
Coke or Ginger Ale :)
The message, lesson, or moral that the author wants you to take away from the story.
Theme
This is the first thing you should do when you START writing your ECR.
Restate the question and answer it
The order that things happen in a story
sequence of events
Point of view: they, she, he, you
Third person point of view.
What is the #1 thing Mrs. Angelica does not tolerate?
Lack of respect / disrespect
A passage/book that tells me real information such as facts and real examples.
Non-fiction (NF)
You need to find THIS in order to support your answer.
Text Evidence
The main series of events in a story from beginning to end.
The plot.
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
What is Mrs. Angelica going to do if you get DNM on the STAAR test?
Give 3 examples of text features
Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.
After you cite your Evidence, you need to do this.
Explain / Defend
What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us
First Person Point of View
What is this sentence an example of?
Billy baked brownies for Becky.
Alliteration
If you are not using your strategies while taking the test? What would Mrs. Angelica do?
Give you a LOOK! :(
This is what the text is mostly about
What is the Main Idea?
This is what you call your final paragraph, where you restate your question again and summarize your answer, using different words.
conclusion.
Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?
Synonyms
To draw conclusions by using text evidence & connecting bits of information
Inferencing
What is Mrs. Angelica's favorite color?
Blue :)
How author's organize their text
Text Structure
What is an EXPECTATION (mandatory) while you are working on your ECR?
Draw my graphic organizer :)