Literacy Check-Point 1

What does PEAS stand for

• Point, Evidence, Analysis, Summarise

• Preview, Explain, Ask, Summarise

• Preview, Evidence, Ask, Statement

• Plan, Explain, Authority, Summarise

What do you do in the "Preview" stage of PEAS?

• Ask "what kind of text is this?"

• Read the title and subtitles and ask "what will this be about?"

• Look for pictures and ask "what will this be about?"

• All of the above

In the "Ask" stage of PEAS should I...

• Ask "what was I thinking about when reading the text?"

• Look for ideas that come up more than once in the text

• Ask and answer the 5 Ws

• Look for words I don't know

When in the explain stage I am looking for the meaning of words I don't know should I...

• Go straight to a dictionary?

• Look for clues in the previous and following sentences?

• Look for comparisons?

• Use a thesaurus to find synonyms

When I summarise I should write in my own words the...

• who, what, when, where, why and how

• Quotes from the text

• A PEEL paragraph

• Dot points

When looking for the "what" the text I should look for...

• Actions and events

• First Person

• Modality

• Connectives

When looking for the "who" in the text I should look for

• Verbs

• Perspective and nouns

• Conjunctions

• Modality

P.E.E.L. is an acronym that stands for...

• Point, Event, Event, Last

• Topic, Example, Elaborate, Link

• Point, Evidence, Explain, Link

• Purpose, Evidence, Elaborate, Line

In which section of P.E.E.L should you use a connective like:

"For example"

or "For instance"

• Point

• Evidence

• Explain

• Link

In which section of PEEL should you see the connective phrase "In conclusion" and high modality used?

• Point

• Evidence

• Explain

• Link