Vocabulary & Word Choice
This word most nearly means effect or influence in the sentence below.
Passage: "The new school rules had a big impact on how students behaved in the hallways."
What does impact mean?
This is the main message or big idea of a text.
What is the central idea?
This means using words or details from the text to support an answer.
What does it mean to cite text evidence?
This term describes how characters, events, or ideas affect each other.
What is interaction?
This describes the author’s opinions or beliefs about a topic.
What is the author’s point of view?
These clues help readers figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
This type of detail best helps identify the central idea.
What is supporting details?
This reading skill means using clues from the text and what you already know to figure something out.
What is an inference?
This passage shows how setting influences a character’s actions.
Passage: "Because the storm grew stronger, Maya decided to stay inside instead of walking home."
What is the storm changes her choice?
Strong or emotional word choice is a clue to this.
What is the author’s opinion?
An author might choose the word slammed instead of closed for this reason.
Why does the author use slammed to show stronger emotion and tone?
A good summary includes this and leaves out opinions.
What is only the most important information from the text?
This step helps students choose the best evidence from the text.
What is understanding the question first?
A character’s decisions are often influenced by this.
What are a character’s beliefs or ideas?
These are the three most common author purposes.
What are to inform, persuade, and entertain?
This term refers to the feeling or emotion a word suggests.
What is connotation?
This is how a central idea develops over the course of a text.
What is by adding details and examples?
This is a common mistake students make when choosing evidence.
What is choosing evidence that does not support the answer?
This question helps identify cause and effect.
What happened and what changed because of it?
Two characters can view the same event differently for this reason.
What is characters have different experiences or beliefs?
Using negative word choices creates this type of tone.
What is a critical or negative tone?
This is the difference between a topic and a theme.
What is topic is the subject of the text and theme is the message or lesson.
This shows that a piece of evidence truly supports an answer.
What is the evidence directly proves the idea?
These signal words help identify compare and contrast.
What are both, however, similarly, and on the other hand?
Authors of historical fiction may change details for this reason.
What is to make the story more engaging?