Vocabulary
What is it called when an author writes something that is true and tries to prove it's true with text evidence.
What is making a claim?
A "doing" or "being" word.
What is a verb?
The main thing that the informational text is about.
What is the central idea?
A writing strategy that is used in an SCR.
What is RACE?
What does "to whom is the author speaking?" mean?
What is "Who is the author talking to in the text?" (Usually the reader).
Which word is misspelled?
Jeopardy is my favorit game of all time.
What is favorit? It should be spelled favorite, with an "e" on the end.
A word used in place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
What is why an author wrote an article (or why the author included certain text features or used a certain text structure)?
What RACE stands for.
R=restate the question;
A=answer the question;
C=cite text evidence;
E=explain how the text evidence shows that your answer is correct.
The text features that show us what something looks like or what is going on in the article.
What is are photos (and captions)?
Which word needs to be capitalized?
I took a trip to the french town of Paris.
What is Change french to French?
The definition of an adverb.
What is a word that describes a verb?
Special characteristics about an informational text, including title, table of contents, photos, captions, timelines, bolded words, etc.
What are text features?
The minimum (least) number of sentences that an SCR can have.
What is 3?
The text feature that shows us where to find something.
What is a map?
Which word is misspelled?
My calandar says it's October, but it still feels like summer.
What is "calendar"?
A simple sentence has a subject, verb, and no fanboy. A compound sentence has two subjects, two verbs, a fanboy, and a ___________.
What is a comma?
Subject-predicate comma fanboy subject-predicate
What is: A shortened version of a story or article that includes the main idea and important details and something from the beginning, middle, and end.
Hint: It does NOT include opinions or small details.
True or false: Text evidence in an SCR doesn't have to be an exact quote or even relevant, it just has to have quotation marks.
What is false?
A text feature that can show us a closeup of something.
What is an inset?
What you see when a store's popularity has increased.
What is increased or longer store hours (Now open on Sundays!)
What needs to be changed in this sentence?
My classmates and me got to play Jeopardy today.
What is "Change the me to I"?
How does an author show an argument is untrue?
What is: by describing a research study that proves that the argument is untrue.
The thing that is missing in this SCR:
The theme of the story is that friendship is important. The text says, "Friendship is good for everyone."
What is "E" - explain, explaining why the text evidence proves that the theme is friendship is important.
Why would the boxed text be included in an article?
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Liberty Hill Museum
123 Fourth Avenue, Liberty Hill
Hours: Monday-Friday 8am - 5pm
Admission: $2 adults, $1 kids
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What is to give information that a visitor to the museum might need.