Annotation
From the Text
Comprehension
Skills 1
Skills 2
100

To ask about a confusing passage or unfamiliar word.

What is a question?

100
Incapable of compromise or making concessions.

What is rigid?

100

A reader's question or comment about a text written directly on the text.

What is annotation?

100

To quote as evidence to support a response.

What is to cite?

100

Details from the text that a reader can use to support his or her ideas and opinions about the text.

What is textual evidence?

200

To say something in return; to answer or reply.

What is respond?

200

A formal request to a government or superior power, usually signed by many people in support.

What is a petition?

200

A comprehension strategy that involves reading a sentence, paragraph, or section text again if a reader did not initially understand it.

What is Rereading?

200

To examine part of a text.

What is analyze?

200

DAILY DOUBLE

What are the 5 different types of context clues?

300

To trace the development of events or ideas within a text.

What is track?

300

Unusually or abnormally good.

What is exceptional? 

300

The ability to process written text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows.

What is Reading Comprehension?

300

To explain the meaning of information.

What is interpret?

300

Details from the text that a reader can use to support his or her ideas and opinions about the text.

What is textual evidence?

400

The act of making a judgement or decision about something.

What is evaluation?

400

To do while expressing clearly and precisely.

What is explicitly?

400

Being aware of what you do and don’t understand throughout a text can help you focus on areas that you may need to reread or apply an additional strategy to understand a text completely.

What is Monitoring Comprehension?

400

To make logical decisions about characters and events that are not state clearly.

What is to make inferences?

400

Precisely and clearly expressed.

What is explicit?

500

An idea formed by combining textual evidence and one's own reasoning and background knowledge.

What is inference?

500

Describing a place that is deserted, empty, and bleak.

What is desolate?

500

Short concise answers to questions about a selection that include supporting evidence from the text.

What are text-dependent responses?

500

The ability to understand what the text says.

What is comprehension?

500

Implied but not stated directly.

What is implicit?

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