Vocabulary in Context
Main Idea
Supporting Details
Implied Main Ideas
Relationships I
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a word that is the opposite of another word
What is an antonym?
100
when an author has a point for writing
What is main idea?
100
added information that is needed for you to understand the main idea
What are supporting details?
100
only suggested by the details and not clearly written
What is implied?
100
words added in a passage to signal that added ideas are coming
What are addition words?
200
a word that means almost the same thing
What is a synonym?
200
deciding what is the general information supported by specific information
What is general and specific details?
200
explain and develop the main idea and help make major details clearer
What are major and minor details?
200
when a selection lacks a sentence that states the main idea
What is implied main ideas?
200
words or phrases that show a relationship between ideas
What are transitions?
300
another word for badger...children like to badger their parents
What is nag?
300
information that leads you to the general subject of a selection
What is a topic?
300
starts with at least a main idea followed by supporting ideas (must have a 1 and 2/an a and b)
What is outlining?
300
who or what the selection is about
What is the topic or the main idea of a passage or the author's point?
300
a series of reasons, examples, or other points that support an idea in a passage...to begin with, next, furthermore
What is a list of items?
400
another word for prevailing...a century ago the prevailing view was to do nothing
What is most common?
400
verbal clues that are easy to recognize
What is a key word in the passage?
400
another style of diagram and highly visual for students
What is mapping?
400
figure this out on your own when there is no stated main idea
What is infer?
400
when an author uses certain words to indicate predictable things that happen
What is a series of events or stages?
500
another word for dubious...her parents were dubious that she could do it
What is doubtful?
500
most important key to good comprehension in reading
What is recognizing the main idea of the passage?
500
reduction of a lot of information to get a better understanding of the passage
What is summarizing?
500
when reading longer passages, you have to infer an author's unstated idea
What is a central point or thesis of passage?
500
a series of events or steps in the order they happen
What is a time relationship?
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