Reading Skills
What author's purpose means to teach or explain facts?
What is Inform?
The beginning of the story where characters and setting are introduced.
What is Exposition?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a Simile?
This word means proof that supports an idea.
What is Evidence?
What is a supporting detail?
What is a fact or piece of evidence that supports the main idea?
This text structure puts events in time order.
What is Chronological/Sequence?
The turning point of the story.
What is the Climax?
A comparison without using like or as.
What is a Metaphor?
This word means extremely large.
What is Colossal?
Headings, captions, diagrams, and bold words are examples of these.
What are Text Features?vvvvvvvvvvv
This text structure explains why something happened and what happened because of it.
What is Cause and Effect?
A conflict between a character and bad weather.
What is Character vs. Nature?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is Personification?
This word means one who lives in a particular place.
What is Dweller?
Using clues and prior knowledge to figure out information not directly stated.
What is Making an Inference?
This text structure compares similarities and differences.
What is Compare and Contrast?
Point of view that uses I, me, and my.
What is First Person?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is Alliteration?
This word means a feeling that something bad may happen.
What is Foreboding?
Before reading a chart or diagram, you should read this first.
What is the Title or Caption?
The main idea is __________.
What is what the passage is mostly about?
The lesson or message of a story.
What is Theme?
Hints about what may happen later in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
This word means natural behaviors you're born with.
What are Instincts?
What should you ask yourself when looking at a graphic?
What information does this graphic add to the text?