A connection you make to something that you have experienced or something that you know personally.
What is a text-to-self connection?
100
The main message or purpose of a text
What is the main idea
100
The reason that something happens in a text
What is the cause?
100
Something true, told like a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
What is narrative nonfiction?
100
Putting something in your own words.
What is paraphrasing
200
"This story reminds me of something I heard about on the news," for example.
What is a text to world connection?
200
The most specific information that you include in a summary.
What are the supporting details?
200
The question you ask yourself to figure out cause in a text
What is "why did that happen?"
200
The story of someone's life, written by the person who is the subject of the story.
What is an autobiography?
200
The state where either Ms. Berger or Ms. Jenkins grew up.
Where is New Jersey or Illinois.
300
A connection you make to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, for example.
What is a text-to-text connection
300
It must be stated two different times in two different ways in a summary
What is the main idea?
300
Davion gets a ram token because he answered a question correctly in class. Answering a question correctly in class is the _________ of Davion getting a ram token.
What is the cause?
300
The linking word that ties the two simple sentences in a compound sentence together.
What is a conjunction?
300
The number of years of reading growth that you are expected to make this year.
What is two years?
400
The easiest kind of connection to make and the most helpful in helping you to better understand what you're reading.
What is a text to self connection?
400
It does not need to be specifically stated or included in the Summary Sandwich format.
What is the topic?
400
Ms. Berger made a mistake. She told her students that (1) all causes have a single effect and (2) that effects answer "what happened?" in a text. Her mistake was statement number ________________.
What is statement number 1?
400
The parts of speech that must appear AT LEAST two times each in a compound sentence.
What are nouns and verbs? (OR subjects and predicates)
400
I might ______ if you say "OMG," and I say, "Oh my goodness."
What is paraphrase?
500
A connection you make to a movie is an example of this kind of connection.
What is a text to text connection?
500
Something you'll be asked to create in every class you'll ever take for the rest of your life.
What is a summary?
500
The names of every single 6th grade teacher.
Who are: Mrs. Winter, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Brown, Ms. Berger, Ms. Jenkins, Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Branch, Ms. Bhat
500
What you might use in order to figure out what a word means based on hints that surround it in a text
What are context clues?
500
Something I've guessed might happen next, based on what I already know or on a detail I've read in the text