look at the first or last sentence of the paragraph -OR- what is the paragraph saying over and over
What is main idea
100
After firefighters stopped using coaches, why did they keep Dalmatians at fire stations?
What is Cause and Effect
100
What word from paragraph 7 has the same meaning as influence?
What is Synonym
100
Giving us real facts through an expository text. This includes: headings, photographs, captions, diagrams, tables, table of contents and a glossary.
What is to Inform
100
A diagram that compares and contrasts
What is a Venn Diagram
200
First...
Next...
After...
Then...
What is sequence
200
From a poem about a storm...
It stayed for a while,
Pushed the swing to and fro,
Bent trees in its presence
Not intending to go.
What is Sensory Imagery
200
A word that comes before the root word
What is Prefix
200
Telling a story that tries to get you to believe or do something. The story includes: characters, setting, problem, climax, solution and conclusion. This also may contain dialogue.
What is Persuade
200
Putting events in the order in which they happened
What is Sequential Order
300
making a prediction based on your schema and what you read
What is inferring
300
The author includes headings in bold print to-
What is Author's Purpose
300
A word that is the opposite of-
What is an Antonym
300
When the author makes the reader have some type of emotion through his or her story telling, the purpose is to-
What is Entertain
300
Tells you the 5 parts of a fiction story or the gist and the theme
What is Summary
400
infer what someone will say or do
What is drawing a conclusion
400
What is the meaning of the word spread in paragraph 1 of the selection?
What is Context Clues
400
Reading around the word or phrase
What is Context Clues
400
Teaching a reader how to do something or what something is-
What is Explain
400
Something that makes something else happen
What is Cause and Effect
500
going deep and thinking about the LIFE lesson that the character learns
What is theme
500
Based on the legend the reader can conclude-
What is Drawing Conclusion
500
A word that can mean more than one thing
What is Multiple Meaning Words
500
Can a passage have more than one author's purpose? Explain why or why not!
No. You have to think about what the OVERALL purpose is.
500
Putting pieces of information together using facts and details