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Facts, examples, or explanations that back up the main idea.
A short version of a text that only includes the main idea and key details.
What is a summary?
A belief or feeling expressed by the author that cannot be proven.
What is an opinion?
A text structure that shows similarities and differences between two or more things.
What is compare and contrast?
The most important point the author is trying to make about a topic. What the text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
A conclusion drawn using text clues and your own thinking.
What is an inference?
The way the author organizes information in a nonfiction text, i.e. chronological order, cause and effect, compare and contrast, etc.
What are text structures or organizational patterns?
A text structure that presents events in the order they happened.
What is chronological order?
Information that is clearly stated in the text.
What is explicit information?
Author's word choices that show the reader how the author feels about the subject of the text.
What is tone?
Parts of a nonfiction text that help organize and present information clearly like bolded words, headings, charts, and graphs.
What are text features?
A text structure that describes a problem and how it is or can be solved.
What is problem and solution?
Information that has to be inferred from the reader's prior knowledge and clues from the text.
Author's word choices that try to influence how the reader feels about a topic.
What is mood?
The acronym PIE helps readers determine the author's purpose.
What is Persuade, Inform, and Entertain?
A text structure that provides details to give the reader a clear picture of a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is description?
Putting ideas into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
Something that can be verified or proven.
What is a fact?
A text structure that explains what happened and why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
A broad statement or conclusion about a group of people or things based on examples.
What is a generalization?