Middle School English and Language Arts Unit Key Vocabulary
From NCSC Wiki
(Difference between revisions)
Jhunsucker (Talk | contribs) |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | + | {{Def|Character|persons, animals, things, or natural forces presented in literature.}} | |
| − | + | {{Def|Context Clues|Context clues are words or phrases that typically surround an unfamiliar word for the purpose of helping a reader understand the new word. Context clues are typically built into the'' ''sentences around the difficult word.'' ''Awareness of context clues allows a reader to make logical guesses/inferences about word meanings.}} | |
| − | + | {{Def|Genre|A category of literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content is a genre. For example, poetry is a genre of literature.}} | |
| − | + | {{Def|Plot|Plot is events that make up a story.}} | |
| − | + | {{Def|Prediction|A prediction is a statement or forecast made about the future. Predicting links information read in a text to prior experience for the purpose of understanding and anticipating the outcomes of events, characters, and conflict in a story.}} | |
| − | + | {{Def|Setting|In literature texts, setting is the time and place where the events of the story take place. The sequence of the settings in a text provides the structure for most literature readings.}} | |
| − | + | {{Def|Summary|Summarizing is to order the most significant events in the text into a format that allows a reader unfamiliar with the passage to gain an overview of the events of a story.}} | |
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | {{Def|Textual Evidence|Textual evidence refers to an explicit support from a reading passage that ''proves'' students' answers. Often textual evidence is either an example from the text that proves an inference/generalization or a direct quote from the text that supports an answer provided by students.}} | ||
| − | |||
[[Category: Middle]] | [[Category: Middle]] | ||
[[Category:ELA]] | [[Category:ELA]] | ||
[[Category:UDL]] | [[Category:UDL]] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:19, 12 March 2015
- Character - persons, animals, things, or natural forces presented in literature.
- Context Clues - Context clues are words or phrases that typically surround an unfamiliar word for the purpose of helping a reader understand the new word. Context clues are typically built into the sentences around the difficult word. Awareness of context clues allows a reader to make logical guesses/inferences about word meanings.
- Genre - A category of literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content is a genre. For example, poetry is a genre of literature.
- Plot - Plot is events that make up a story.
- Prediction - A prediction is a statement or forecast made about the future. Predicting links information read in a text to prior experience for the purpose of understanding and anticipating the outcomes of events, characters, and conflict in a story.
- Setting - In literature texts, setting is the time and place where the events of the story take place. The sequence of the settings in a text provides the structure for most literature readings.
- Summary - Summarizing is to order the most significant events in the text into a format that allows a reader unfamiliar with the passage to gain an overview of the events of a story.
- Textual Evidence - Textual evidence refers to an explicit support from a reading passage that proves students' answers. Often textual evidence is either an example from the text that proves an inference/generalization or a direct quote from the text that supports an answer provided by students.
