Reading Comp.
What the author or a character thinks or feels about someone or something.
What is Perspective
The underlying message the author wants the reader to get after reading a story.
What is a Theme?
It is the main point the author wants to make about a topic.
What is the Central Idea?
Words that have the same or a similar meaning
What is a Synonym?
Identify the figurative language:
We were running late because Jase as slow as a turtle.
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What is “as slow as a turtle”?
To persuade, inform, or entertain a reader through their writing.
What is Author’s Purpose
They describe a character’s personality and can be determined by the character’s thoughts, feelings, and words.
What are Character Traits?
The author’s opinion about a topic that is supported by evidence.
What is a claim (author’s claim)?
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an Antonym?
Identify the figurative language:
Kelsey’s fingers were icicles when she came in the house after playing in the snow.
What is “fingers were icicles”?
To use what the text says and your schema to determine information or what is going on in the text.
What is inferring (making an inference)
The things that are needed to make a story.
What are Story Elements?
The way the author organizes information in a piece of writing.
What is Text Structure?
A word or letters added to the end of a root or base word to change its meaning.
What is a Suffix?
Identify the figurative language:
The clouds danced across the sky.
What is “The clouds danced”?
Source (text)-based information including facts, figures, and details used to support the writer or speaker’s central idea or claim.
What is evidence.
The events of the story that tell the main parts of the story in sequential order (beginning, middle, and end).
What is the Plot?
Elements of a story or an article that helps the reader to better understand the topic (may be apart of the text or an addition to the text).
What is Text Feature?
A word or letters added to the beginning of a root or base word to change its meaning.
What is a Prefix?
Identify the figurative language:
His name is on the tip of my tongue.
What is “on the tip of my tongue”?
To briefly tell what the story or article is about in your own words.
What is Summarizing?
The part of a story where the problem and an intense action come together.
What is the Climax?
Information that can be proven.
What is a Fact?
Hints in a sentence or paragraph that help us understand the meaning of a word we may not know.
What are Context Clues?
Identify the figurative language:
I tried to lift my suitcase but it weighs a ton.
What is “weighs a ton”?