What Does It Mean?
Point of View
Text Structure
Reading Strategies
Language
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What does "theme" mean?
The moral or the message of a story
100
What is a first-person narrator?
Told by a character in the story
100
The text talks about similarities and differences between steamboats and ferries. What is the text structure?
Compare and contrast
100
What is a strategy you can use to find the main idea of a text?
Look at the title, look at the headings, read the introduction and conclusion, look for repeating words, use the text structure
100
What is a synonym?
A word that means the same thing as another word.
200
What does drawing conclusions mean?
Making an inference
200
What is a second-person narrator?
Narrator addresses the reader
200
The text talks about the events in a person's life. What is the text structure?
Chronological, sequential, or order/sequence
200
What strategies can you use to figure out who the narrator is (1st, 2nd, or 3rd person)?
Look for pronouns (he, she, I, you, etc.) to figure out who the narrator is.
200
What is an antonym?
A word that means the opposite of another word
300
If I ask you to "infer," what am I asking you to do?
Make a very good guess using evidence from the text.
300
What is a third person narrator?
Told by a narrator outside of the story.
300
The text talks about how a community rebuilt after war. What is the text structure?
Problem and solution
300
How can you figure out the theme of a story?
-Think about: what did the character learn? -Look at the problem and solution
300
What is a simile?
When you compare one thing to another thing (for example, "He is as brave as a fox.")
400
What does "central idea" mean?
Main idea
400
What is point of view?
What the narrator thinks or feels about the characters or events
400
The text talks about what it is like on mars. What is the text structure?
Description or main idea
400
What strategy can you use to make an inference?
Look for text evidence along with your background knowledge.
400
What are "sensory details"?
Details that help you to imagine something using your 5 senses, such as adjectives (describing words)
500
What does "author's intent" mean?
The author's purpose -- why the author wrote the text
500
How can you figure out the author's point of view in a NON-FICTION text?
Figure out the topic, get evidence about what the author thinks or feels about the topic.
500
The text talks about how the Boston Tea Party helped lead to American Revolution. What is the text structure?
Cause and effect
500
What strategy can you use to support your answer using text evidence?
Reread, highlight, find the section in the text that talked about the question
500
What is a prepositional phrase?
When or where something happens
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