Collaborative Discussion
Infer!
Reasons vs. Opinion
Homonyms and Language
Writing Process and Reading Strategies
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In a discussion, when you try to relate your ideas to what other people have said so far you are

Making a connection

100

What is an inference?

An educated guess about why something is happening

100

What is a reason or evidence?

Something you can prove to be true

100

What is a homonym?

A word that has more than one meaning or definition

100

If I am correcting spelling and grammar mistakes, what stage in the writing process am I in?

Editing

200


Discussing a story with other readers helps you

Understand more about the story

Find out things you never noticed about the story

Compare your inferences with another reader

200

Tia's muscles ached after the basketball game." We can infer that

Tia knows how to play basketball.

200

What is an opinion?

What you think or how you feel about something
200

What are the multiple meanings of the word nails?

Nails on your fingers and nails you can use when building.

200

Which of these activities should happen during the prewriting stage of the writing process?

listing all of your ideas

300

Working with other people to create something is

Collaborating

300

What do we use to make an inference?

Clues from what we read or watch and our background knowledge

300

When you share your opinions with other people it is important to back your thoughts up with

Reasons

300

An author might use a word with multiple meanings as part of the story title to

Give the reader a "key" to what the story is about

300

When you sound out words you don’t know, which reading skill are you using?

Decoding

400

Before you sit down to have a discussion with your teacher, it is important to

Prepare by writing down notes and questions

400

It is important to look for key _________ in making a correct inference.

Details

400

What purpose do reasons serve in a collaborative discussion?

People use them to explain or support the ideas they share.

400

Why would an author use a word with multiple meanings as part of a story’s title?

to provide clues about the story’s meaning

400

During which stage of the writing process should you make changes to how your story or report is organized? 

Revising

500

When you have a discussion with others it is important to

Listen and pay close attention to whoever is speaking

500

When you infer something in your reading you

Use clues and what you already know to come up with an idea

500

Determine if the following sentence below is a reason or opinion

"Ice cream is the best dessert in the entire world!"

Opinion

500

If you write a letter to your newspaper or your member of Congress, you should take care to use

standard English

500

 What does it mean to visualize a story as you read?

imagine the story’s events