Textual evidence, explicit statements, and the author's reasons
What are supporting details?
Listen to a rock-and-roll tune, and you’re likely to hear the unique, ripping sounds of an electric guitar.
Particular or relating to a specific thing describes this word in the sentence above.
Listen to a rock-and-roll tune, and you’re likely to hear the unique, ripping sounds of an electric guitar.
What is the meaning of the word unique?
Both the sitar and the electric guitar have tuning pegs.
What is compare?
Analyzing what the text says explicitly and drawing inferences from the text.
(RI1)
What is citing textual evidence?
Alike, same, similar, and compare
What are synonyms for the word comparison?
A group of words or a phrase in a passage that helps the reader to make meaning of an unknown word.
What are context clues?
Its form changed over time, and the sitar used today dates to the middle of the 18th century.
What are time order and sequence?
It provides a summary of the text and/or gives the writer's most important point in one or two sentences.
(RI2)
What is the main idea?
Unalike, different, and dissimilar
What are synonyms for the word contrast?
How are the sitar and guitar alike?
What are the similarities between the sitar and electric guitar?
The sound of the sitar was initially strange to American and European ears. But eventually Shankar and his odd instrument developed a large fan base in the West.
What is problem and solution?
It provides the reader with the meaning of an unknown word or phrase in a text.
(RI4)
What are context clues?
The most important point and central idea in a story or passage.
What are synonyms for the term "main point"?
The amplifier helps give the electric guitar its distinct sound.
Which word is similar in meaning to the use of "unique"?
The vibrating tarabs produce additional notes, which give the sitar its unique sound.
What is cause and effect?
Information to help the reader understand the overall structure of a text.
(RI5)
What are text structures?