Give me the word pt 1
What is the lesson of a story called?
Theme
To use a quote from the story that backs up your point. (RACE)
Cite textual evidence
The author’s attitude/way of writing how they feel.
Tone
like or as
What do we call a person or an animal that is in a story?
A character
What are facts or examples in a story that support the main idea called?
Details
To use information from a story to make an educated guess.
Infer (Inference)
Main character (usually good)
Protagonist
What strategy do we use to write a response that asks for textual evidence?
RACE
What two things make up the setting of a story?
Time & place
When someone asks what the story is mostly about, what are they asking for?
The main idea.
Telling the most important parts of a story in a short way. (SWBST)
Summarize
A character that goes against the protagonist (main character)
Antagonist
What does R&A stand for in RACE?
Restate & answer
What do I always tell you to do before reading the story?
Look at the questions first.
When finding similarities and differences in a story, what are you doing?
Comparing & contrasting
1st person: I, me
2nd person: you
3rd person: he, she, they
Point of view
To look at or judge something in detail.
Analyze/Evaluate
What does C&E stand for in RACE?
cite evidence & explain
What do I always say when we're writing a RACE response?
punctuation then quotation!
Which word means to communicate or show?
Convey
To use words in a way that’s not normal to describe (simile, metaphor, personification, idioms, onomatopoeia)
Figurative Language
To use other words in a sentence to find the meaning of an unknown word.
Context Clues
What skill is SWBST used for?
Summarizing
Tell me what each letter of SWBST stands for.
S-somebody
W-wanted
B-but
S-so
T-then