This is the most important concept in a text, passage, or paragraph. They are followed by supporting examples, details, or facts.
What is the main idea?
100
You do this when you apply real-life experiences to a text in order to better understand it.
What is making connections?
100
This was the main idea of the article "Bye-Bye, Junk Food" (The one you have at your seats.)
What is "Disney is banning the advertisement of junk food on their stations"?
100
#1 on your handout ("Bye-Bye Junk Food")
What is a Title?
100
This is how many paragraphs are in a 5-paragraph essay.
What is 5?
200
These are parts of a text that are outside the main body. They may be words and sentences (like captions or headings) or may not be text (like diagrams or pictures).
What are text features?
200
This strategy is using reasoning and logic to make conclusions about the text. (You can find the main idea this way if it is not an explicit main idea.)
What is making inferences?
200
This is the main idea "Beyond Petroleum Oil Spill"
What is "The BP oil spill is causing deformities in fish".
200
Number 8 in the "Bye-Bye, Junk Food Article"
What is a diagram/pie chart?
200
This is the first paragraph in a 5-paragraph essay.
What is the introduction/introductory paragraph?
300
Sentences/facts that support or develop the main idea of a text, passage, or paragraph. They help us better understand the main idea by supplying more information
What are details?
300
This is a strategy in which you ask yourself "what's going to happen next in this text?"
What is making predictions?
300
This is the main idea of President Obama's speech on immigration?
What is "The DREAM act should be passed without opposition."
300
This is number 3 and number 6 on your handout.
What are captions?
300
These are the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th paragraphs in a 5-paragraph essay.
What are body paragraphs?
400
You are doing this when you are finding similarities between two texts.
What is comparing?
400
This reading strategy involves using text features to get clues about what an article/text will be about (ex: looking at headings can help you know how the text is organized).
What is pre-reading?
400
This is the main idea of "The Nazca Lines of Peru"
What is "the Nazca Lines of Peru are lines drawn in the desert that make giant shapes you can only see from an airplane"?