7th Grade ELAR Unit 3

What is the main point or underlying direction of a piece of writing?

• credibility

• graphic feature

• Inquiry

• controlling idea

What is the quality of having reliable and trustworthy characteristics?

• key ideas

• paraphrase

• credibility

• primary source

What is a picture or other image within a text?

• graphic feature

• credibility

• inquiry

• controlling idea

What is text that presents information in order to inform or educate an audience ?

• inquiry

• informational text

• key idea

• paraphrase

What is the search for information and explanation, often focusing on specific questions?

• inquiry

• paraphrase

• research plan

• organizational patterns

What are important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc?

• organizational patterns

• primary source

• reliable source

• key ideas

What is the pattern an author constructs as he organizes his or her ideas and provides supporting details?

• research

• paraphrase

• organizational patterns

• inquiry

What is restating the meaning of something in different words?

• summarize

• synthesis

• paraphrase

• text structure

What is a source from the time in which an event being studied occurred and created by someone who was present at the even?

• reliable source

• primary source

• secondary source

• summarize

What is a credible or believable source?

• reliable source

• research

• secondary source

• summarize