Vocab! Vocab!
What's up with the SRP/Investing?
Genres
Thinking Frames
Random...ish
100

What should you do if you are asked to contrast?

You should show how things are different.
100

Step #1 of the SRP includes:

previewing the text (genre, genre frames, and title)

100

Stories based on a author's imagination is known as

Fiction/narrative

100

Once you read the text, Our thinking frame questions form this big idea! 

What is the central idea?
100

The criteria for a short response question includes...

-write a strong claim.

-include relevant evidence to support claim

- explain evidence

200

What should you do if you are asked to describe?

You should tell the characteristics.

200

As you read the text, you should complete step #2 of the SRP. What is step #2 of the SRP?

Read and jot the main idea. 

200

Contains verses, lines, stanzas, and rhyme schemes

Poetry

200

What are the thinking frames for poety?

What is the literal and deepest meaning?

200
Excel's mascot is...this animal.
Lion
300

What should you do if you are asked to explain?

You should tell your answer and give reasons, details, facts, or examples. 

300

You should ask yourself this question when you are investing

What is the question asking me in my own words?


300

Biographies, autobiographies, and speeches

Informational/Nonfiction

300

What is the thinking frames for informational text?

what is the topic

what is the text teaching me about this topic?

what is the author's point of view?

300

What is the movie of the book Hatchet called?

Hatchet: A Cry in the Wind

400

What should you do if you are asked to conclude?

You should show your understanding of the overall idea of the text. 

400

What steps do you take when investing in MC questions?

Cover the answer choices, invest in the question, find and mark evidence in the text, and come up with an idea that answers the question in your head.

400

advertisements, e-mails, online information, televised news, and documentaries

Media

400

What are the thinking frames for narrative text?

Who are the characters? What is the problem/solution? what is the lesson learned?

400

Ms. ________ and Ms. ___________ are the coaches of the 2020-2021 Excel Upper Basketball team 

Buchanan and Life

500

What should you do if you are asked to persuade?


You should convince someone by giving reasons.


500

What does SRP stand for?

Strategic reading plan

500

cast of characters, dialogue, scenes, settings, set directions

Drama/plays

500

The criteria for a strong (2/2) main idea includes:

the deepest meaning that is supported by the text, places the idea in context, and is accurate. 

500

All annotations and jots should be related to...

the genre frame questions