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TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
Argumentative
VOCAB
Story Elements
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
100
Numbering paragraphs, reading all the way through, circle unfamiliar words are all the first steps of this reading strategy.
What are "close" reading strategies?
100

Facts, statistics and other information that can be used to support one's thinking.

What is evidence?

100

To examine something in detail.

What is analyze?

100

The people and animals in a story

What are characters?

100

When he slipped on the banana peel, I started dying of laughter

What is a hyperbole?

200
Words around another word that can help you figure out the meaning of the word.
What are context clues?
200

Someone's opinion

What is claim?

200
An object or color which represents a deeper meaning.
What is symbolism?
200
The place, time, period, and atmosphere of a story.
What is the setting?
200
The lake waves were flakes of red gold.
What is a metaphor?
300

Punctuation used around textual evidence to show that it's the author's words and not yours.

What are quotation marks?

300

Someone's reasoning for their opinion

What is an argument?

300
An educated guess made from observations.
What is an inference?
300

The beginning of a story

What is exposition?

300

The old car trudged to the mechanic to get fixed

What is personification?

400
Using a mixture of the author's words and your own to prove an answer.
What is paraphrasing?
400
An opinion that is opposite to another

What is a counterclaim?

400

Favoring something over another.

What is bias?

400

The most exciting part of the story

What is the climax?

400

Gabby gulped gatorade before going in the game.

What is a alliteration?

500
Making notes while reading to help with understanding and answering questions.
What is annotation?
500

A reason that is given that goes AGAINST another.

What is a counterargument or rebuttal?

500
Direct words from a passage to prove an answer.
What is textual evidence?
500

The lesson learned or the moral of the story

What is the theme?
500

The sand was as soft as powdered sugar beneath my feet.

What is a simile?