Study Sync Unit 3 Review

Why are stage directions important?

• They establish a play's mood/tone through description of costumes, lighting, and sound.

• They can help cue a reader into the physical and emotional world of a scene.

• Intensify the unrealistic setting, foreshadow and emphasize events.

• All of the above.

Writer's position on an issue or problem.

• paraphrase

• claim

• prompt

• annotation

What is an inference?

• A guess about what the author doesn't tell us directly.

• Making a mental movie in your head as you read.

• A guess about what will happen in the future.

• All of the above

What is point of view?

• who is telling the story

• the reader's thoughts

• your opinion

• the perspective from which the story is told

Hints in the surrounding text that can help a reader infer the meaning of an unfamiliar word, phrase, or description.

• context clues

• analyze

• inferences

• all of the above

What are text features?

• Quickly tells readers what information they will learn about.

• The components of a story/article that are not the main body of text.

• Helps you locate information in the text.

• All of the above.

What is a 'HEADING'?

• First sentence of the paragraph.

• Short phrase describing what the next section is about.

• Title of the article.

• Text under the picture.

The idea that a reader forms by combining text evidence and his/her own thinking or prior knowledge.

• metaphor

• inference

• text evidence

• making connections

What is the author's purpose?

• Why the author wrote the story (PIE - persuade, inform, and entertain)

• Tell how things are alike and how they are different

• Most important points that an author shares

• Different ways authors help readers figure out unfamiliar words

What are good test-taking strategies when taking an assessment?

• Review questions prior to reading.

• Eliminate answers that do not make sense.

• Recap paragraphs by jotting a few words in the margin.

• All of the above.