Reading Skills
What is the main idea of a text?
What is the most important point the author is making
What is a synonym for quick?
What is fast?
Who are the people or animals in a story?
Who are characters?
What is the first draft of your writing called?
What is called a draft?
What text structure tells events in order?
What is sequence/chronological order?
What do you call proof from the text that supports your thinking?
What is text evidence
What is an antonym for happy?
What is sad?
Where and when a story takes place is called what?
What is a setting?
What is it called when you fix spelling, punctuation, and grammar?
What is called editing?
What structure shows how two things are alike and different?
What is compare and contrast?
When you use clues to figure something out that is not directly stated, what are you doing?
What is making inferences?
What does analyze mean?
What is to examine or study carefully?
What is the problem in a story called?
What is a conflict?
What is it called when you improve ideas and add details?
What is called revising?
What structure explains why something happens and what happens next?
What is cause and effect?
What is it called when you tell the most important parts in a short way?
What is summarizing
What are context clues?
What are words around a word that help you understand its meaning?
What is the solution to the problem called?
What is a resolution?
What is the beginning paragraph of an essay called?
What is an introduction?
What structure presents a problem and how it is solved?
What is a problem and solution?
What skill are you using when you explain how two texts are alike and different?
What is compare and contrast?
What does it mean to infer?
What is to use clues and prior knowledge to figure something out?
What is the lesson or message of a story called?
What is the theme?
What is the ending paragraph that wraps up your ideas called?
What is the conclusion?
What structure describes something in detail using characteristics?
What is a description?