Explain how the author's use of words and phrases helps reader understand the setting. In your response, use words and phrases from the story that support your explanation. Write your answer on your answer document.

Annotation: The reader answers in a general way that the words help a reader understand the setting "because. The detail and the words it makes you picture in your mind." This type of response could be enriched by including text support which describes the setting and the picture it makes. Possible text support might include "the frozen snow and ice cracking on the river," "a desolate, wind-swept place," or "the bare branches of the trees." The reader could explain how these phrases help a reader picture the setting.

Annotation: The reader uses a phrase from the story to show how the author helps the reader understand the setting "the pine trees were coverd with snow and the branches where weak." Although this is an appropriate phrase, to improve this response, the reader should address how these words could help a reader understand the setting of the story.

Annotation: The reader selects an appropriate example from the text "peeping through the snow covered branches" to support how the author helps a reader understand the setting. Next the reader explains that this phrase helps a reader understand "that the people are outside because it can't snow inside a house" and that "it has to be winter because it only snows in winter." Additional text support and explanation would strengthen this response.