Where and when the story / text takes place. How the place feels.
What is setting?
100
The moral or message behind a story / text?
What is theme?
100
The reason the author writes the text / story?
What is Author's Purpose?
100
An educated guess that can be made using own knowledge and experience and text clues?
What is inference?
200
Restate the question Answer the ? TBE#1 TBE #2 TBE # 3 Spare Tire
What does RATTS stand for?
200
Identify Verb Finish the thought
What does IVF stand for?
200
To look around the word in the story / text to figure our meaning.
What are context clues?
200
Compare two nouns without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
When a writer gives human characterisics to non-human things
What is personification?
300
A statement that shows a person's belief or feelings
What is an opinion?
300
generous, giving, respectful, aggressive
What are character traits?
300
The car was a lightening bolt
What is a metaphor?
300
The princesses' hair was as soft as silk
What is a simile?
300
Alice ate apples in Arizona.
What is alliteration?
400
Includes a brief main idea statement the main events or details Does not include opinion Is shorter than the original text
What is a summary?
400
The article, "Making Crayons," by Kathy Furgang explains how crayons are made
What is an IVF statement?
400
Don't judge a book by its cover Love can overcome anything
What are themes?
400
Bolded text captions headings
What are examples of text features?
400
Judging a character's actions
What is Evaluating Character's Reasoning?
500
The problem in the story that characters must overcome
What is the conflict?
500
Using prefixes, suffixes and roots Using Parts of Speech Using context clues Using background knowledge Using author clues
What is Word Attack?
500
The mood or feeling the author wants you to get from a story or text
What is tone?
500
To entertain, to inform, to persuade
What is Author's Purpose?
500
Read the question first Underline clue words in the question Read the text / story and look for clue words Narrow it down to 50/50 Choose the best answer