Close Reading
You close read a text this many times:
What is 3?
Evidence can be cited in these two ways:
What are direct quotes and paraphrasing?
True or False: Inferences can be made about both the main text and AIR book characters.
What is true?
This is a central idea:
What is the main point of a text the author wants you to understand?
Setting is:
What is the location, place, or time a story takes place?
A star goes next to this in a text:
What is dialogue?
Explain what is missing from this citation of evidence:
"We glide and I feel as if I'm floating."
An inference is:
What is a logical conclusion reached based on evidence and analysis?
In a central idea pyramid this is where the central idea is located:
What is at the top?
This is a plot:
What is a summary of what is happening in a text?
This goes next to each paragraph:
What is a number?
All evidence, directly quoted or paraphrased, must be connected to an inference by this:
What is analysis/explanation of evidence?
Inferences about a character reveal:
What is/are their feelings, motivations, their thoughts, beliefs?
We explain a central idea through the following:
What are character actions and speech/thought OR incidents that affect a character?
In a text these are the two types of characters:
What are major and minor?
You do this to words you don't know:
What is circle?
This is the CORRECT way to cite paraphrased evidence:
What is evidence from text written in your own words with the page number?
An inference MUST include these 3 things:
What are evidence, page number for evidence, and analysis connecting inference to evidence?
Incidents connect to characters by:
What is affecting a character's actions and speech OR revealing a character's personality or feelings?
This is the definition of context clues.
What is information in a text that leads you to an understanding?
Name at least three things you do when close reading:
What is re-read, make inferences, make annotations, identify central idea/main point, analyze the text.
These three things should be included when citing evidence:
What is a direct quote, quotation marks and page number?
Make an inference about Ha after reading this portion of text:
"An arm extends to help us board, an arm hairy with fuzz.I touch it, so real and long, not knowing if I will have another chance to touch golden fuzz. I pluck one hair."
Answers may vary.
Explain what this incident reveals about Ha's mother:
"A family of three in the tent to our leftgets sponsored to Georgia;the couple to our right goes to South Carolina. Newcomers leave before us. Mother can barely eat. Then by chance Mother learns sponsors prefer those whose applications say “Christians.” Just like thatMother amends our faith, saying all beliefs are pretty much the same."
Answers may vary.
My last name is spelled this way:
For 100 bonus points spell my first name as well.
What is NAOMI DESROCHERS?