Reading Informational
This is the big idea or the most important point an author wants you to understand from a paragraph or article. What is it called?
What is the central idea?
This is the person telling the story or poem. Sometimes it's a character, and sometimes it's someone outside the story.
What is the narrator or speaker?
This is a brief retelling of the most important ideas from a text, without extra details or opinions. What is it called?
What is a summary?
These hints help us figure out the meaning of a word based on how it is used in a sentence.
What is context clues?
The most important events in a fictional story, including the beginning, middle, and end.
These tools in nonfiction texts, like bold words, headings, and captions, help you find and understand information quickly. What are they?
What are text features?
The main character faces a problem or challenge in this part of the story.
What is the conflict?
You read the sentence: “The classroom was a zoo.” What type of figurative language is this an example of?
What is a metaphor?
If I tell you to replace a word with a new word that means the opposite, you are finding a:
ANTONYM
These details are important parts of the story that help you understand the central idea or theme, such as key actions or events. What are they called?
What are relevant details?
This explains how a text is organized.
Text Structure
When a poet gives human qualities to something nonhuman, like saying “the wind whispered,” what is that called?
What is personification?
You read two articles about space travel. One gives facts, and the other tells a story. What strategy helps you understand how they are different?
What is comparing and contrasting?
This is a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. For example, "happy" and "joyful."
What is a synonym?
n the sentence "The wind whispered through the trees," this is an example of giving human qualities to something nonhuman. What is this figurative language called?
What is personification?
The author’s main opinion or argument in a nonfiction text is called what?
What is the author's claim?
What does repetition do in a poem?
Stresses or emphasizes
This point of view is told from the perspective of a character that is part of the story.
What is the meaning of the word CALABASH?
A pumpkin-like vegetable.
When an author expresses their personal feelings or opinions about a topic, it reflects their point of view. What is this called?
What is author's perspective?
You read a science article that explains how photosynthesis works, step by step. What structure is being used?
What is sequence?
This is the message or big idea the author wants you to learn from the story, like “Be kind” or “Never give up.” What is it called?
What is a theme?
What kind of things do we ANNOTATE on our scratch paper?
The most important facts in a paragraph, figurative language, thing we notice like: text structure, author's claim, interesting facts.
If you don’t know a word’s meaning, you can break it apart to understand the meaning of its parts. For example, "unhappiness" can be broken into "un-" (not) and "happiness" (the state of being happy). What is this called?
MEANING