Context Clues/ Text Evidence
When you use Context Clues to figure out the meaning of an unknown word, this is what you are doing.
What is looking at the words and phrases around the unknown word to determine its meaning?
The main idea (or central idea) of a passage
What is the passage is mainly about?
This point of view uses the pronouns I, me, we and ours.
What is first person point of view.
This is when you cross off the multiple choice answers that you know are wrong.
What is Process of Elimination.
This is a comparison that uses "like" or "as". Example: You are as bright as a star.
What is a Simile.
When you cite textual evidence, you do this.
What is go back in the text to find the answer.
The supporting details in a passage
Support the main idea. They give the reader more information about the main idea
Author's 4 primary purposes for Writing
What are to persuade, to inform, to entertain or to describe.
What is the 3rd step in our strategy for tackling EOG reading passages?
Re-read the questions and answer them in your own words (without looking at choices!)
This is a comparison that gives human-like qualities to animals or objects. As in: The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
What is Personification?
"Ladies, please stop the name calling. There is no reason to act uncivil. Let's discuss the problem. "
Define "Uncivil" and tell what clues from the sentence lead to your definition.
What is impolite, distasteful, or showing poor manners-->"Name calling"
This is the definition of theme.
What is a message the reader can learn about life or the human condition?
This point of view uses the pronouns you, your, and yours. (For example: a recipe)
What is second person?
Before you should even read the story, you should read these and do this!
What is read the questions and write them in your own words.
This is the meaning of the phrase "pull the plug" in the following sentence: It would be very unwise to “pull the plug” on the production of electric cars right now.
What is stop the process.
This is the type of context clue for the word "impose" in the following sentence. And what does "impose" mean.
I do not like to impose my beliefs on others; for example, I do not like trying to persuade others into my political beliefs.
Example context clue. Impose=Force
This is the Central Idea of the following paragraph: "Kids’ schedules are many things, but reliable isn’t one of them. As anyone who has children will say, kids have unscheduled band, choir, soccer, football, and dance practices. They occasionally get sick and need to be taken home. They even, from time to time, must stay late at school."
What is "kids have unreliable schedules."
Author's Purpose of this passage:
I think dogs make the best pets! They are much nicer than lots of other animals, and they are very smart. You can train them to do all sorts of things. Dogs are definitely better than all other pets!
What is to persuade someone that dogs are the best.
Why do we read the questions before the passage?
So we know what to look for while we read.
This is when a common expression (word or phrase) is used figuratively and not literally. Example: James was being a real "stick in the mud." In this example, the phrase "stick in the mud" means "party-pooper"
What is an Idiom
In the following paragraph, this is the BEST text evidence to support why electric car batteries are hazardous:
"A Journal of Industrial Ecology report found that manufacturing electric vehicles produces over double the carbon dioxide gas of building traditional gas automobiles. Burning gasses like carbon dioxide are believed to cause climate change, which can hurt the environment. In addition, electric vehicles are charged with electricity from burning oil and other fuels. Electric car batteries also contain toxic chemicals."
What is "Electric car batteries also contain toxic chemicals"
The theme of The Fir-Tree and the Bramble:
A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, "You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses." The Bramble answered: 'You poor creatures, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree."
Popularity can be a bad thing/its not always good to be popular.
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor uses what point of view in the following excerpt?
The day Shiloh come, we’re having us a big Sunday dinner. Dara Lynn’s dipping bread in her glass of cold tea, the way she likes, and Becky pushes her beans over the edge of her plate in her rush to get ’em down. Ma gives us her scolding look. We live high up in the hills above Friendly, but hardly anybody knows where that is. Friendly’s near Sistersville, which is halfway between Wheeling and Parkersburg. Used to be, my daddy told me, Sistersville was once of the best places you could live in the whole state.
First person point of view. Signal words: "We, my"
What is the reason for writing the answer for the questions in your own words before looking at the answer choices?
So that you don't second guess yourself. So your answer is supported by the text/more likely to be accurate.
Name the figurative language being used and explain what it means:
"Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won’t fall
I am titanium"
Metaphor- She compares herself to one of the strongest metals. She is showing that no matter what you throw at her, or how much you try to knock her down, you won’t succeed.