What someone thinks or believes.

What does R.A.C.E.S. stand for?

Restate. Answer. Cite. Explain. Summarize.

What three features do we analyze to determine an author's viewpoint?

Content, text structure, word choice

A shorter version of a text that includes the main ideas.

Transition words or phrases are important in an essay because they...

help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

What effect does the author create by writing in all capital letters?

It emphasizes the true importance of the situation.

What is a conclusion?

A judgement or decision reached by reasoning.

Where the information comes from.

What does the word "supported" mean?

Backed by or evidence that helps prove something.

The life lesson the author wants me to learn.

The process of presenting a topic to an audience., A message that is stated or written.

What the story/text is mostly about and supporting details.

A statement that can be proven correct.

What does a thesis statement do?

Offers a brief summary of the claim of the essay, research paper.

What are examples of FICTION signposts?

Compare & Contrast, Aha Moment, Tough Questions

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1
What is a plot?
Sequence of events, the "why" for what happens in a story.
All of the above.
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, solution.
None of the above.
2
What is an inference?
None of the above.
A guess based on putting information together.
All of the above.
Clues from the text + what you know.
3
What is an opinion?
A statement that can be proven correct.
The life lesson the author wants me to learn.
What someone thinks or believes.
What the story/text is mostly about and supporting details.
4
Identify the best definition for the word swarm as it is used in the text: "Then came a swarm of locusts over the land."
a fast, surprising movement
a large group moving together
a vicious attack
a dangerous storm
5
What does R.A.C.E.S. stand for?
Real. Aardvarks. Can't. Extend. Summer.
Reading. Actual. Crime. Establishes. Standards.
Restate. Answer. Cite. Explain. Summarize.
Restate. Approach. Cite. Evaluate. Short Response
6
What three features do we analyze to determine an author's viewpoint?
Plot, summary, setting
Content, text structure, word choice
None of the above
Negative, positive, neutral
7
Which of these is an example of a conflict a character might face?
Characters vs character
Character vs. nature
All of the above
Character vs self
8
What is a summary?
A judgement or decision reached by reasoning.
Where the information comes from.
A shorter version of a text that includes the main ideas.
A part of something.
9
What is the best title for this story?
The National Weather Service
Weather Forecasting in 1870
You Can't Predict the Weather
Land Stations, Ships, and Weather Radars
10
Transition words or phrases are important in an essay because they...
help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs
are only used to introduce text evidence
are included in every sentence of an essay
None of the above
11
What effect does the author create by writing in all capital letters?
It shows the desperation in the speaker.
It emphasizes the true importance of the situation.
It demands the reader also obey.
It warns about the real danger coming.
12
What is a conclusion?
Where the information comes from.
A judgement or decision reached by reasoning.
A part of something.
A shorter version of a text that includes the main ideas.
13
What is a source?
A part of something.
Where the information comes from.
A shorter version of a text that includes the main ideas.
A judgement or decision reached by reasoning.
14
What does the word "supported" mean?
Backed by or evidence that helps prove something.
The process of presenting a topic to an audience.
A section (part) of a text, story, or article.
A message that is stated or written.
15
What is the author's purpose when making an advertisement?
None of the above
To entertain
To persuade
To inform
16
What is a theme?
What the story/text is mostly about and supporting details.
The life lesson the author wants me to learn.
What someone thinks or believes.
A statement that can be proven correct.
17
Which of these is an example of a type of text structure?
description
numbers and stats
fiction
all of the above
18
What is a statement?
The process of presenting a topic to an audience.
A section (part) of a text, story, or article.
Backed by or evidence that helps prove something.
A message that is stated or written.
19
What is a main idea?
The life lesson the author wants me to learn.
What someone thinks or believes.
A statement that can be proven correct.
What the story/text is mostly about and supporting details.
20
Which of these choices are an example of a transition word or phrase?
For example,
In addition,
All of the above
However,
21
What is a fact?
What the story/text is mostly about and supporting details.
What someone thinks or believes.
A statement that can be proven correct.
The life lesson the author wants me to learn.
22
What does a thesis statement do?
Offers a brief summary of the claim of the essay, research paper.
Introduces text evidence
Analyzes all sides of an argument
Includes the words the and sis
23
What are examples of FICTION signposts?
Numbers & Stats, Word Gaps
Extreme and Absolute Language, Quoted Words
Compare & Contrast, Aha Moment, Tough Questions
All of the above
24
“Show me how to walk, mother dear,” answered the little Crab obediently, “I want to learn.” What does obediently mean?
angrily or with a negative attitude
excitedly, with hope
respectfully, with compliance
quickly or swiftly

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