Claim
Evidence
Explanation
Punctuation/Capitalization
Making Observations
100

A sentence which identifies the main idea of a persuasive text.

What is a claim statement?

100

Text that is copied word-for-word and put into quotation marks?

What is cited evidence?

100

Explaining what the numbers mean

What is interpreting statistics?

100

Punctuation marks used for the title of an article

What are quotation marks?

100

I am very important and tell part of the main idea

What is a title?

200

These five (5) parts must be included in the claim.

What are the 5Ws?

200

Giving credit to the author

What is MLA citation?

200

Retelling or restating what the evidence says

What is NOT explaining what the evidence means?

200

The first letter of an author's first and last name should be this

What is capitalizing proper nouns?

200

I have the word, "note" in my name

What is an annotation?

300

The length of the claim statement.

What is one sentence?

300

World or Gov't Organization, expert testimony, research, or survey

What is level 4 evidence?

300

Using information in the article as well as making a connection to the world that is not explicitly stated in the text

What is making an inference?

300

Goes around the author's last name and page number

What are parentheses?

300

When one annotates

What is underlining and writing a note in the margin?

400

This W usually has to do with geography.

What is the Where?

400

Numbers used to communicate information

What are statistics?

400

More than a one-sentence answer

What is a good start to a level 4 explanation?

400

Erase me and move me to the end

What is the proper location of the period?

400

I give information about a photo or graphic

What is a caption?

500

This tells the name of the argument and who wrote it

What is the title and author?

500

Used to intentionally leave out part of a sentence

What is an ellipses?

500
Sounds like a concluding sentence in a paragraph

What is a connection back to the claim statement?

500

I am NEVER used when writing about a persuasive text

What are first person pronouns like I or We?

500

I give information within a border

What is a text box?