These are the important places to look for clues for the main idea.
What is the title, beginning, end, subtitles, and repeated words?
100
This is the base word of "prehistorical"
What is history?
100
These are the four main purpose for writing.
What are to inform, to persuade, to entertain, to teach a lesson?
100
This is where the story takes place. This is what happens or the important events in the story.
What is setting? What is plot?
100
This is a synonym for the word "coaxed" based on the meaning from this sentence: She coaxed him to come up in front of the class to give his presentation.
(different answers will be accepted) What is convinced, persuaded, talked into, gently forced...
200
This is where the theme (lesson or moral of the story) is most often found.
What is the end of the story?
200
This is what you do if you come to a word that is unfamiliar in order to figure out the meaning.
What is use context clues? Look in the sentences before AND after the word.
200
This is what is also included in an author's purpose statement besides the reason for writing.
What is the main idea? Example: the author's purpose is not just to inform...it is to inform the reader about an amazing dog that can smell if a human has cancer.
200
These are ways that you would describe a character. Many times you have to infer or draw conclusion about these things because the author does not come right out and tell you. They only give you clues through the character's actions.
What are character traits?
200
This is the reason something happens in a passage. It come before the event.
What is the cause?
300
This is the BIG idea of a passage. It is usually only 2-3 words to describe what it's mostly about.
What is the topic?
300
If imagine means to think about or picture something, this is what unimaginable means.
What is not able to think about or picture something?
300
These are three possible ways authors could organize a passage for the reader.
What are (any three are fine) charts, maps, graphs, subtitles, text boxes, columns, bulleted lists, etc.?
300
This is the conflict the main character faces. Most of the time, you read about it near the beginning of the story.
What is the problem?
300
This is what an author does when they tell what is alike about two or more things.
What is compares?
400
This is what happened (events) in a story or article in the order that it happened.
What is a summary?
400
This is a word that means the opposite of a word. This is a word that has the same meaning of a word.
What is an antonym? What is a synonym?
400
This is the genre that an author would write if they wanted to teach the reader a lesson.
What is traditional literature (fable, folktale, etc.)?
400
This is the most excited or suspenseful part of a story. It keeps the reader interested and wanting to read more.
What is the climax?
400
This is someone's thought or belief on a topic. It can not be proven.
What is opinion?
500
These are things an author uses to support the main idea and give the reader additional information in an interesting way.
What are text features?
500
This is when the author compares two or more things using "like" or "as". This is when an author compares things without using "like" or "as".
What is a simile? What is a metaphor?
500
This is the genre an author would write in if they wanted to get the reader to feel something or picture it in their mind.
What is poetry?
500
This is the order in which the events in a story occur. Look for the key words before, after, beginning, and end.
What is sequence?
500
This is when you make a guess about what will happen next based on clues the author gives you.