Study guide: Explain what a story and a process show
Connect evidence to a character inference, a cause, a story message, and an explanation paragraph.
Ideas to explain in your own words
- Use a specific action to support an inference about a fictional character.
- Use an explicit cause to explain a story event.
- Use two story events to support a possible lesson.
- Organize a topic, ordered details, and a concluding sentence.
Watch your reasoning
- Lena interrupts her own finished work to get paper and show Omar what to do. That action supports helpfulness more directly than the objects or setting do.
- The passage directly connects the gust to lifting the sign. Closing and picking up occur later, and desk color is never mentioned.
- Milo’s failed stack and changed base support learning and adjustment. The other choices make universal or unrelated claims the events do not establish.
- A consistent symbol links the map to the key. A triangle has this assigned meaning in the pretend map; the other claims are not in the notes.
A worked review example
Support a Character Inference: “Lena seems helpful because she finds a new sheet and shows Omar the first fold” connects a trait to evidence. “Lena is helpful because boats are nice” does not use her action. Explain Why an Event Happens: The sign left the desk because a gust through the open window lifted it. Dara then closed the window; that later response is not the cause of the earlier movement. Find a Message Supported by the Ending: One message is “Learn from a failed attempt and adjust your plan.” Milo’s first tower falls; he changes the base after observing the bridge and gets a standing tower. These two events support the message. Explain a Supplied Process in a Paragraph: A key explains symbols on our pretend map. First, choose a triangle to mean a tree. Next, draw the triangle beside the word tree in the key. Use that same triangle for tree places on the map. The key lets a reader understand those symbols.
Make a practice plan
- Try the supplied lesson problems without looking at the answers.
- Compare your method with the worked examples and explain any correction.
- Use the new review cases, then complete the transfer task on paper or in your own document.