ELA Standards

What is the best definition for the word "independently"?

• being left alone all of the time, forever

• without help

• needing a lot of help

• trying to do something but failing

What does it mean to analyse something?

• To break it into parts to understand it better

• To ask for help when you don't get it

• To search for new meanings of words

• To wonder about the meaning of a text

What does it mean to make an inference?

• To make a random guess

• To only make up your mind after learning everything

• To use evidence to make your best guess

• To make something up

What is an objective summary?

• Summarising the text

• Giving the main ideas and your thoughts on it

• Focusing on the details rather than the big picture

• Writing the main points of a text without adding opinions

What's a theme?

• The summary of a text

• What a text is really about

• A statement of the universal human idea that a text demonstrates

• Love

What is a genre?

• A kind of text, or a way to sort texts into groups

• Fiction

• A way of understanding difficult texts

• How readers approach the world

What is the central idea?

• What the text means, or what it is trying to say

• A summary of the main ideas

• The universal human experience that a text demonstrates

• Making marks on the text to help you understand it

What does it mean to annotate?

• Ball it up and throw it in the trash can

• Finding the summary and main idea

• Spending time wondering what a text means

• Writing your thoughts, confusions, insights, and questions as you read to help you understand a text better

What is textual evidence?

• The main idea of a text

• Writing your own thoughts into the margins

• Examples drawn from a text that can prove your claim

• A guess drawn from evidence

What does the abbreviation RI stand for in the ELA standards?

• Reading for Literature

• Reading for inexperience

• Reading for Learning

• Reading for Information