Reading Skills
A resource used to help readers define words.
What is a dictionary?
The character or force in conflict with a main character.
Who is the antagonist?
Grouped lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
What the text is mostly about.
What is central idea or main idea of the overall text?
Hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that the reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?
The overall, universal lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or moral in a literary text and often deals with abstract questions, beliefs, or truths.
What is theme?
The voice behind the poem.
Who is the speaker?
Information in the text provided to clarify, prove, or explain the main idea.
What are supporting details?
A strategy used to help a reader comprehend what is being read.
What is annotation?
A written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
Words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true.
What is figurative language?
Graphics, figures, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded or italicized words, phrases?
What are text features?
How the author creates the passage and puts it together.
What is organization or text structure?
A summary technique that allows the reader to identify the different parts of a narrative.
What is CPR (Characters, Problem, Resolution)?
The feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
Cause and Effect, Chronological, Sequence, Compare and Contrast, and Problem and Solution.
What are the different types of text structures?
What you should do if you zone out while reading or you don't understand something.
What is rereading?
The event that sets the main character or characters on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative. Typically, this event will upset the balance within the main character's world.
What is the inciting incident?
A literary device where a poem compares two unlike things throughout the poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
The most important component of reading an informational text.
What is determine the controlling idea?