READING
DETECTIVES
DETECTIVES
This is the main message or most important idea of a text.
What is the central idea?
This word means finding clever ways to solve problems.
What is resourceful?
This sentence type gives a command: “Please close the door.”
What is an imperative sentence?
This word describes someone who creates clever and original solutions.
What is ingenious?
Name two strategies for finding the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are using context clues and checking a dictionary or reference tool?
These details explain or support the central idea.
What are supporting details?
This word means working together.
What is collaborate?
In “The young inventors designed a machine,” these words are the subject.
What is “The young inventors”?
This word describes someone who doubts or questions something.
What is skeptical?
Explain the difference between a central idea and a supporting detail.
The central idea is the main message; a supporting detail explains or supports it.
This text structure presents events in the order they happened.
What is chronological order?
When you do this, you watch or study something carefully.
What does observe mean?
In “The students worked together,” these words are the predicate.
What is “worked together”?
This word means specially designed or made for a particular purpose.
What is specialized?
A watering bottle has large holes, so water floods the soil. Identify the cause and effect.
Cause: the holes are too large. Effect: the soil floods.
Readers use text clues and what they already know to do this.
What is making an inference?
This is an early model of an invention or design.
What is a prototype?
Choose the correct verb: “The team (work / works) together.”
What is “works”?
This word means poor or having very little money or resources.
What is impoverished?
Correct this sentence: “The students was excited.”
What is “The students were excited”?
A passage explains a problem and how someone solved it. Name this text structure.
What is problem and solution?
This word means continuing to work even when something is difficult.
What is persistence?
This is the plural form of the word “leaf.”
What are “leaves”?
Use the word “maneuver” in a meaningful sentence.
Teachers Choice
Explain the difference between a sentence fragment and a complete sentence.
A fragment is incomplete. A complete sentence expresses a complete thought and has a subject and predicate.