Inferencing
Inferencing means ________.
What is, make an educated guess about the text using context clues and reading between the lines.
What are the 5 different types of purposes an author can use in their writing?
What is Persuade, Inform, Explain, Entertain and Describe?
This refers to the unique combination of an author's ideas, values and beliefs .
What is author's perspective?
What is main idea?
What is main idea? A one sentence summary of what a text is mostly about.
What is theme?
A message about life or life lesson that can be learned from a story/text
Ben is auditioning for a part in the school play. He's been fine all day, but right before the audition he says he feels sick. You might infer that Ben __________.
a. is nervous about the audition
b. is happy about the play
c. never gets sick
d. is allergic to peanuts
What is, he is nervous about the audition.
When the author writes things like novels, comics, funny stories, poems, plays, and similar genres.
What is to entertain?
The teacher was mildly intimated by Merdine's bossy behavior. If you change the word bossy to assertive, the word now has a ____ connotation (perspective).
a. Positive
b. Negative
What is, a. Positive.
"Many people have not heard giraffes make noises. Giraffes do not use sounds to 'talk' with each other. When hurt, giraffes make a low moo, something like a cow. When frightened, they make a short, high sound."
A. Giraffes do make noises
B. Giraffes talk all the time.
C. Cows and giraffes talk to each other.
D. Lots of people have heard giraffes talk.
What is A. Giraffes do make noises?
Does a text always only have one universal theme?
No, there are multiple themes that can come from one text.
Every day after work Paul took his muddy boots off on the steps of the front porch. What can you infer about the type of work Paul does?
a. He works as a lawyer
b. He works as a doctor
c. He teaches PE in a small town school
d. He cuts trees down in a forest
What is D, He cuts trees down in a forest.
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What is to Persuade?
Which has the most Negative perspective?
A. dirty
B. filthy
C. soiled
What is, B. filthy.
"Dolphins are very smart animals. They even have their own language. They talk to each other with clicks, whistles, and grunts. Scientists have been studying this dolphin language. They hope that in the future, people and dolphins will be able to talk to each other."
A. how dolphins talk to people
B. how smart dolphins are
C. how dolphins are different from fish
D. which scientists are studying languages
What is B. how smart dolphins are?
Identify the theme in the answer choices for the (please keep your answer in question form).
A. Your past does not define you.
B. Returning home after a long time
C. A man sees a group of people he used to work with a long time ago.
D. An old man who used to be a farmer
What is A. Your past does not define you?
Susie was playing very roughly with her chrome book, and later that day her friends saw her in the office. They heard the principal say that she shouldn't have been swinging it around in the first place. What happened to Susie?
What is, She broke her chrome book
The Underground Railroad was a secret organization which helped slaves escape to freedom. Many slaves were able to escape because of the conductors and station masters. The northern states were free states and slaves were free once they arrived in the north. Secret codes and signals were used to identify the conductors and station masters.
What is to inform?
What three type of categories can words be organized in when talking about author's perspective?
What is positive, negative, and neutral.
"Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have 9,000 taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the roof of your mouth. You even have taste buds on the back of your throat."
A. Why we can taste only certain things.
B. That we taste through our noses
C. Where taste buds are found
D. We have taste buds on our tongues
What is C. Where taste buds are found?
Identify the theme in the answer choices for the (please keep your answer in question form).
A. a 35-year-old woman named Essie and her brother
B. a small apartment in Marfa, Texas
C. Telling the truth may cause pain, but in the end, it's better than lying.
D. Essie lied to her brother about her identity for two years, but she finally decided to tell him the truth.
What is C. Telling the truth may cause pain, but in the end, it's better than lying?
Samantha wasn't feeling good on Monday. On Tuesday, she wasn't at school. Why wasn't she at school?
She was sick.
It was a glorious morning in Alabama. The sun was shining through the trees. Alan couldn't wait to find his fishing pole and call his friend Sam to go fishing. They had a great time on these early morning fishing trips. They took their dogs with them and the dogs would swim in the lake while they fished. It was so funny to watch those dogs paddle around the lake.
What is to describe
Identify the whether the author's perspective is positive, negative, or neutral:
Most teens today are growing up in smaller families than before.
What is neutral?
"The earth's surface is constantly changing. All over the world everyday there are earthquakes, floods and volcanoes that quickly change our world. Some changes are too small to see. Others cause tremendous damage and costs millions of dollars to clean up."
A. It is expensive to clean up the damage
B. Sometimes we can't see the changes.
C. The Earth's surface is always changing.
What is C. The Earth's surface is always changing?
"George and Brent were brothers, but you would never know it. They did not really get along. George loved sports, and Brent loved to read. They were complete opposites., but the one thing they had in common was they were both failing a subject. George was failing reading and Brent was failing Math. Their mom would not be happy. They decided to help each other in their failing subjects. By the time the report card came home, they were both passing reading and math."
A. Loyalty
B. Treat others how you would like to be treated.
C. Two heads are better than one.
D. Be yourself
What is C. Two heads are better than one?