Skills
What does compare mean?
How to characters or things are alike
What is main idea?
What the whole story is about.
What is called when you tell how two characters are different?
Contrast
What is called when you put things in order?
Sequencing
When you infer, will you find the answer right there in the story?
no
What is inferencing?
When you use clues from the story and background knowledge to figure out an answer.
What does According to the text mean?
The answer will be right there in the story.
What is something you should do Sunday night to prepare for the FSA?
Go to bed early.
What is something you should do Monday morning to help you prepare for the FSA?
Eat a good breakfast.
What are context clues?
When you come to a word that you don't know the meaning of and use the sentences around it to help you figure out the meaning.
What is a cause?
Why something happens.
What is point of view?
How the author or character thinks or feels about a topic.
What is an effect?
What happens.
What is Author's Purpose?
Why the author wrote something.
What are the three reasons an author writes something?
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
What is theme?
The message.. what is the author trying to teach or tell you.
A narrator telling a story is told in what point of view?
Third
In writing we call them paragraphs. In a poem they are called what?
Stanzas
If the main character is telling you the story, what point of view is that told in?
First
Name 3 types of genres.
Fiction, Non-fiction, poetry, biography, autobography
What is a biography?
A story of someone's life written by another person.
What text features labels a section?
Heading
What is another name for sequencing?
Chronological order
What is an autobiography?
A story of someone's life written by that person.
What does drawing conclusions or conclude mean?
You will not find the answer right in the text. You have to use story clues and background knowledge to figure out the answer.