Rikki Tikki Tavi

reflect

• the process of working together to achieve a shared goal

• to think deeply or carefully, sometimes about the past

• a discussion between two or more individuals engaged in collaboration

• to adapt or improve

claim

• the writer's or speaker's position on a debatable issue or problem

• details from the text that a reader can use to support his or her ideas and opinions about the text

• the process of working together to achieve a shared goal

• to adapt or improve

infer

• text that provides a definition of a word

• text that provides a clue to the meaning of a word through a contrast

• implied but not directly stated

• to determine something not stated directly by using reasoning nd evidence from the text

example context clue

• to examine the parts of something in detail

• to quote as evidence to support a response

• text that provides a clue to the meaning of a word through one or more examples

• to determine and explain the meaning of

textual evidence

• precisely and clearly expressed leaving no room for doubt

• implied but not stated directly

• details from the text that a reader can use to support his or her ideas and opinions about the text

• text that provides a definition of a word

analyze

• to examine the parts of something in detail

• to adapt or improve

• to determine and explain the meaning of

• the process of working together to achieve a shared goal

"Rikki-tikki’s eyes grew red again, and he danced up to Karait with the peculiar rocking, swaying motion that he had inherited from his family."

What inference can be made given this explicit textual evidence?

• I can infer that Rikki-tikki is very excited

  about the idea of hunting in the garden.

• The author is suggesting that

  Rikki-tikki is brave and powerful like a hero.

• Teddy and his mother and father must be scared

• It seems like the cobra might feel threatened or frightened by

  Rikki-tikki. He’s probably sitting up tall in order to protect himself

Name at least three elements of an effective collaborative conversation.

antagonist

• a conversation between characters

• the main character-the one the story revolves around and who usually has a problem to solve

• the character whose goal works against the main character

• an individual in a literary work whose thoughts, feelings, actions, and reactions move the action of the plot forward

plot

• the sequence of events that take place in a work of literature

• the final outcome of the story's conflict

• a conversation between characters

• a discussion between two or more individuals engaged in collaboration